Are report generation tools exclusively text-based?

Question

Hi,
I'm using LabView 5.1.1, and have just explored the new (to me) report
generation tools. Handy though they are (I added the facility to print
results from my project in a nicely formatted report in just a couple of
hours) it strikes me that it would be even better if I could add bitmaps
to the report. This would let me add pretty logos, but obviously we
could do far more using LabView pictures/graphs etc.
There is no reference in the documentation or on the NI web site as far
as I can tell, but I can't be the first programmer wanting to do this.
Any hacks out there?
Best wishes to you all,
Allan Green
Medical Physics and Clinical Engineering,
Queen Elizabeth Hospital Edgbaston Birmingha
m UK
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Answer 1

I too have tried to use the report functions. They work fine for text only.
In the end I ended up scraping the idea and simply configured a vi (which i
called report.vi) to print at completion. I set the vi up with tables and
bitmaps the way i wanted it and called it as a sub vi (passing the data i
wanted printed to it) whenever i wanted a report printed.
It works really well. The only problem is that it must always be strictly
to a given format as defined in your vi.
I suppose you could hide some controls using attribute nodes (and maybe
enable others) if you didn't want them printed.
Cheers
John
Reinis Kanders wrote in message
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> On windows I have had success with using HiQ for report generation. I
> would manually create a template for a
> particular project, then send data using LV VI's to that template then
save
> it with different name or just print it.
> Using HiQ (free with LV 5.1) I was able to have pictures, graphs, you name
> it. Also since HiQ gets the actual data, then by saving HiQ file you do
> data logging as well, those HiQ reports can also be stored in database.
> I found HiQ approach to be more flexible than NI report generator,
only
> drawback is that it is not cross-platform portable. For cross-platform
> report generation I have been looking into some sort of XML based
approach.
>
> Hope it helps,
>
> Reinis Kanders
>
> "Allan Green" wrote in message
> [email protected]...
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm using LabView 5.1.1, and have just explored the new (to me) report
> > generation tools. Handy though they are (I added the facility to print
> > results from my project in a nicely formatted report in just a couple of
> > hours) it strikes me that it would be even better if I could add bitmaps
> > to the report. This would let me add pretty logos, but obviously we
> > could do far more using LabView pictures/graphs etc.
> >
> > There is no reference in the documentation or on the NI web site as far
> > as I can tell, but I can't be the first programmer wanting to do this.
> > Any hacks out there?
> >
> > Best wishes to you all,
> >
> > Allan Green
> > Medical Physics and Clinical Engineering,
> > Queen Elizabeth Hospital Edgbaston Birmingham UK
> >
> > ==================================================================
> > My views and opinions are seldom that of the institution for which
> > I work. I take that to be a healthy sign.
> > ==================================================================
> >
> >
>
>
>
>
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