Reporting Tool Available in Hull Design - *12​.1​.SP3*

Description

The Reporting add-in is now available for productive use in AVEVA Hull Design. Any available report can be run directly from the Tools menu. The same menu also gives access to the report designer, which allows creation of new reports or modification of existing ones.

Quick reports can be generated by right-clicking in the search results of the search utility.

A report may include any content which is exposed as an element or attribute in the database, as well as graphical elements (lines, images etc).

The reporting tool is very powerful and allows data to be sorted, grouped and summarised as desired. The graphical layout can be fully customisable, and generated reports may be saved to text files or other common formats such as PDF or HTML. Additional functionality may be added by using calculated expressions or code in for example, C# that runs when the report is being generated.

As a part of the integration of the reporting tool in Hull Design a number of new attributes have been added, mostly on elements in the MANU database. Some of these allow better possibilities to use PML expressions to collect information from several related elements, such as a nest and plates that are nested on it.

Obviously, there are many advantages in upgrading existing customised reports that use Data Extraction to reports using the reporting tool. To simplify such a process, new attributes have been added to cover more of what can be extracted by Data Extraction. A translation table has been added to the user documentation, mapping Data Extraction keywords to elements and attributes.

A number of reports come with the MAR project that is included in the installation. Some of these reports can be used as direct replacements for a number of built-in listing or reporting functions, such as parts lists and WCOG lists. The reports can also be used as examples and act as a starting point for further development of customised reports.

Benefits

Using a common tool for reporting all over the system is a benefit in itself.

This tool also provides extensive possibilities for customisation of contents as well as layout of reports.

The reports produced by the reporting tool can replace many built-in listing and reporting functions, for example, PPI functions such as parts lists and WCOG lists. Customised reporting solutions using legacy products such as Vitesse and Data Extraction may be upgraded to use the common reporting tool.

Many different users and roles can benefit from the reporting tool, for example, in early or detailed design as well as in the production area.

Compatibility Constraints

None.

For More Information

The reporting tool in general is described in User Guide Design / Reporting.

Mapping of Data Extraction keywords to elements and attributes as well as general descriptions of all attributes can be found in User Guide Database and Data Management / Data Model / Reference Manual.

Affected Programs

AVEVA Hull Design.