MTS Reporter Add-In - Manual (Page 30)

• MTS TestSuite Run Report activity, which you add to your test procedure to automatically generate a
report at the end of the procedure (for more information, see your application user guide)
Generating a Report Using the Excel Reporter Add-In
Note:
To generate a report using the Excel Reporter Add-In, you must have purchased a separate license
for the Reporter Add-In product. It also requires the installation of Microsoft Excel software or another
suitable Microsoft Excel reader.
1. Open a report template in Excel (MTS templates are located in C:\MTS TestSuite\Report Templates).
2. Click the MTS TestSuite Report tab in the ribbon.
3. Click the Test icon in the ribbon and open the test that contains the test run that requires a report.
4. In the Generate section of the ribbon, click Source and select the test, test run, or analysis run that
you want to use to create a report.
5. Click the Report icon on the ribbon.
6. The system will launch another instance of Microsoft Excel and show the newly generated report file.
Create Variables for Reports
Most information that you want to include in a report must be saved in a variable. Some variables are
automatically created and mapped by the application and others must be created by the user.
Note:
MTS-supplied templates include preconfigured data acquisition activities and variables that save
data for use in various charts/tables that appear in the test, report templates, and post-test analysis.
If you are creating your own tests, you must create data acquisition activities and variables to save
the data.
Test data
If you are creating your own tests and want to include test data in reports, you must create data acquisition
(DAQ) activities to collect the data and create variables where the DAQ activity will save the data.
• In some instances, this could be as simple as configuring a data acquisition activity to automatically
map signals to variables (a process that automatically creates the variables required to store the data).
• In other instances, you may have to create data acquisition activities that store signal data in array
variables, and then create an array variable that performs calculations on the signal data and stores
the result. For example, a stress array variable could include a stress calculation that uses data from
a load array variable.
In either case, if you want to show test data in a report, your test must include a data acquisition activity
that will collect the data and save it to a variable.
Other variables
In addition to test data variables, reports can include other single-variable values that are not associated
with data acquisition. For example, there are specimen variables (such as geometry type, diameter, and
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