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Opening, closing, activating of a report Those actions are available from the ribbon in the Report manager dialogue.
Button Open starts Engineering Report application and opens the Report which has not been opened yet while Activate will bring the application with already opened and selected report on the top of the user's screen and put the focus on it. Close button will shut down theEngineering Report application for selected report. Closing is also possible from the Engineering Report application.
It is possible to have opened more than one reports from more projects at the same time. Each of those reports will be opened in its own instance of the Engineering Report application.
Engineering Report is a SDI application which means that each report is opened as a separate instance of the application.
Saving of a report all reports are stored together with the project using the Save button in SCIA Engineer. It is not necessary (and not possible) to manually save a report. It is saved automatically after finishing of each action.
Renaming of a project it is possible to rename the projects using "Save as..." function. This renaming can be done also while some Reports are opened. The link between Engineering Report and project is not damaged by renaming of the project.
Auto-save and Recovery for Engineering Report all changes done in Engineering Report are automatically saved on hard drive in the Temp folder immediately after the change is finished. It means that in case of any problem in SCIA Engineer or Engineering Report, the user does not lose anything from his work. Therefore also saving of Engineering Report is not necessary.
In case of crash of SCIA Engineer and following restart of it, the Recovery dialogue is automatically launched (see the description of Recovery in the Reference Guide for SCIA Engineer). Recovery of selected project will recover also all reports included in this project. Recovered reports will be in the same status as they were immediately before the crash.
Important: It is necessary to save the project at least once after creation of a new report before the potential crash of SCIA Engineer occurs. Otherwise the report will be lost.
Crash of SCIA Engineer the Engineering Report application runs separately from SCIA Engineer application but it needs to communicate with it to get the information about the project and store the reports into the project. Therefore it is not possible to fully work with Engineering Report in case of accidental crash of SCIA Engineer. The user is informed about such a case by displayed message and also by communication status icon on the status bar of the Engineering Report application. User should close all reports which are currently running and then restart the SCIA Engineer application. All reports will be available with all data as were before the crash (see the paragraph above).
Communication between Engineering Report and SCIA Engineer is asynchronous and is done via requests and responses. In case Engineering Report needs some information from SCIA Enginer it sends request to SCIA Engineer and waits for the response. The status of communication is monitored and displayed on the status bar of Engineering Report.
- communication is established and currently not used
- Engineering Report is waiting for response from SCIA Engineer
- SCIA engineer is not responding. Some modal dialogue is opened or the program is busy with some calculations or some problem in SCIA Engineer has occurred.
The Engineering Report runs separately from SCIA Engineer but it still needs data from SCIA Engineer during regeneration of report items. Those data are sent as responses on requests. During regeneration of e.g. a table Engineering Report sends request for data to SCIA Engineer. It prepares those data (e.g. by running necessary calculations) and sends them back to Engineering Report as a response. Afterwards the received data are formatted into table in the Engineering Report.
Generation of data is done in process of SCIA Engineer.
Formatting of data into table is done in process of Engineering Report.
Formatting and generation of data is done in separate threads, therefore they can be done simultaneously which is visible also on progress bars in the Navigator. Both (formatting and generation of data) has its own progress bar.
New report can be created in Engineering Report Manager. It can be created as new blank report or it is possible to copy one report with all its data.
Since version 14 it is possible to create a new report based on selected template or using default report template. See the chapter related to report templates.
It is possible to copy content of reports between different projects using the clipboard (Copy - Paste) - see chapter Tips and tricks