Regeneration of Report items

There are two types of regenerations of report items in the Engineering Report: Automatic and on-demand.

Automatic regeneration is done by system and it is implemented for items with very fast update of its content. It is implemented for table of content (report item Content) and Formatted texts (which are updated immediately after closing of Formatted text editor).

Content of other report items is regenerated only on-demand. It means that the regeneration must be started manually by the user. There are two ways supported of on-demand regenerations in the Engineering Report: Regenerate selected items and Regenerate all items.

• Regenerate selected: This type of regeneration ensures that all report items which are selected in the Navigator are regenerated regardless on their validity status. This regeneration can be started from the ribbon or from floating button at the Navigator. Locked report items are not regenerated even if they are included in the selection.

• Regenerate outdated: This type of regeneration starts regeneration of "all necessary" report item to make the report valid. By default "all necessary means" that there are regenerated items which are invalid and which are not hidden or locked. But its behaviour can be modified in drop down menu:

In this menu user can switch ON the regeneration also of hidden, valid or locked items. It is also possible to exclude pictures or tables from the regenerate all. This setting does not affect "Regenerate selected" function.

The progress of regeneration is indicated on progress bar bellow the report item. On the following picture the table with nodes is just being regenerated. Table with members is waiting in the queue.

The queue and the progress of regeneration is displayed also on the Tasks panel

Regeneration of reports from report manager

Regeneration of reports can be started also from report manager since version 14.1.

Pressing this button starts regeneration of all selected reports. The validity status is ignored in this regeneration, all items from reports are regenerated except locked ones.

During the regeneration is each report opened,on the background, regenerated and finally closed. All regenerated data are stored and available immediately after next opening of the report.

Regeneration of Engineering reports from batch analysis

In the dialogue of Batch analysis it is possible to select also some of existing reports to be regenerated at the end of analysis. This possibility enables to run finite element analysis and regeneration of selected reports in one step (e.g. during the night or lunch pause). After finishing those tasks user can immediately start checking up-to-date results of analysis and checks in updated engineering reports.

The validity status is ignored in this regeneration, all items from reports are regenerated except locked ones.

During the regeneration is each report opened, automatically regenerated and finally closed. All regenerated data are stored and available immediately after next opening of the report.

Automatic export of reports at the end of regeneration

Any report regenerated from the batch analysis or regenerated from the report manager can be automatically exported into any available format directly after the end of the regeneration.

This automatic export can be set on the setting page of each report.