Changes to „Report Options" don't affect output in the way I expect

Question

Changes in the „Report Options“ Window don’t affect report-files in the way I expect. For Example: when I set “Report Format” to “Web Page” the output is a html-file but changes in the “Report Colors”-dialog don’t affect the output. When “Report Format” is set to “ASCII Text File” I get the same file shown in a texteditor – with html-tags and so on (not what I expected). The “Insert Graph”-option doesn’t work, too.
Has anyone an idea what‘s going wrong with my TestStand-installation?
Thanks!

Answer 1

Hi Daniel,
This is most interesting. Something is not working right here. The next thing I would suggest is that you try debugging the model and report generation sequences to see exactly what is going on. Here are some suggestions:
1) Launch the Sequence Editor.
2) Double click on the "Model" text in the status bar, this will open your station model.
3) Place a breakpoint on the "TestReport Callback" step inside of the "Single Pass" sequence.
4) Go to Configure>>Station Options and on the Execution tab select: Trace Into Entry Points option. Close this dialog by clicking OK.
5) Go to Configure>>Report Options and select the Sequence option and modify the other options to what you desire. Be sure to select the HTML report generation however. Close this dialog by clicking OK, not Cancel.
6) Load the sequence file, \Examples\Demo\C\computer.seq.
7) Select Single Pass from the Execute menu.
8) When the execution stops at the breakpoint, select the Context tab and navigate to Locals.ReportOptions. Quickly browse through the properties to make sure they are set to what you changed in the dialog.
9) Swicth back to the Steps tab and click step into.
10) Step over until you get to the "Get Report Body" sequence call, and then click step into.
11) Click on the Context tab and navigate to "RunState.SequenceFile.Path". Check this path. It should be pointing to "\Components\NI\Models\TestStandModels\ReportGen_html.seq".
11) Also check the values inside of Parameters.ReportOptions. These should resemble what you have selected on the Report Options dialog.
12) Continue single stepping, and stepping into subsequence calls, until an error is generated. Once the error occurs, select Break on the error dialog, and then examine the step that failed. Check to make sure that all the preconditions are correct and that any properties stated do actually exist.
13) If the step is configured to call a DLL make sure that the DLL it is calling is from the NI directory under \Components. You can do this by bringing up the specify module dialog for the DLL and checking the path.
By the way, the files I sent you are for TestStand 2.0.1f1. Is this your correct version? Please let me know if any of the above steps fail, and exactly what you are seeing. Thanks!