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Using the stock reportgen_xml.seq file, the text value of the XML node shouldn't contain the characters < or >:

 

http://www.w3.org/TR/xml/#syntax

 

When using LabVIEW VI's to parse this, you (rightly) get errors, so it's incredibly difficult to just search and replace the offending characters with their XML escapes. 

 

Example node contents from the XML report:

 

<Prop Name='ReportText' Type='String' Flags='0x400000'>
                            <Value><![CDATA[{0} Locals.i = 0; Locals.i < 2; Locals.i += 1]]></Value>
                        </Prop>

The Additional Results Step property is a great way to add customized results to the TestStand report for a particular step without much effort required.  However, there should be an equally simple way to add additional results too all of the steps in a sequence.  The current options are all lacking:

 

  1. Create a SequenceFilePostStep engine callback to manually append results to the result list - this feels hacky
  2. Add additional results to each step - this is tedious
  3. Create custom step types - this is also tedious, as a new step type would be required for each step

I think there should be an additional results option available in either the report options or in the sequence file properties window or the report options window.  Configuring the results here would be identical to adding the additional result to every step in the sequence.

 

Potential implementation of button on report options window:

tsgar.png

 

Additional results button launches a dialog:

ardialog.png

Allow for Additional Results to be selectively added to the reports of your choosing instead of all-or-none.

 

Currently:

1 - Step settings.PNG 

 

 

 

Proposed:

A - Compiled Step Settings.png

 

B - Compiled Report Select.png

Since reports are to certify the test results, it would be nice to have DIGITAL SIGNATURE option to give it FORMAL touch.

It will also help in organizations to authenticate the result.

 

It will be also nice to add some PPT or PHOTOS to report to describe the test setup & UUT.

Even though we already have an About box for TestStand, it would also be nice to have one for the active TestSequence file as well. The Help menu would have a new item called "About MySequenceFile ...".

 

MySequenceFile About box splash screen:

19679i37712516107E8A41

 

The information in this screen should be loaded directly from a single FileGlobal string whenever a sequence file is made active. This can probably be done already by those that know how, but it should be already part of TestStand by default.

 

 

Eugene

Hello Team,

In the additional results of step settings, if we have long list of results to log and like to rearrange the list, it is very effort taking to rearrange using the “Move Selected Results Up/Down” control button.

It would be easy if we have

1. Option to select multiple results  while using the “Move Selected Results”  control button 

2. Option to have drag and drop to move the selected results.

 

 

MultipleResultstoMoveSelection.jpg

 

Thanks

Hello Team,

 

Currently we can’t move or add additional results above the ‘Parameters’ if the subsequence or module has parameter list. It would be useful if we have an option to move the selected result to log in the Additional Results of step settings to desired position/row.

Similary with in the Parameters list, it would be useful if we have an option to rearrage the list.

 

MoveSelectedResultUp.png

Thanks

 

Hi,

 

It would be nice to have another group of the steps.

 

--send an email,

--send a notification to the syslog server,

--sent a notification to the event log.

 

It could improve sequence reporting and notifications. The coding these functionalities in the modules no longer wouldn't be needed. 

If have to run 10 different UUTs for each group, the TestStand report should contain a either mass header or footer that shows the UUT group statistics, Example: 10 UUTs total run, 7 Passed 3 Failed, in It would seem almost obvious that the TestStand report would contain this information.UUTGroupResults.JPG

 

 

 

I've encountered on several occassions, customers who assign serial numbers / partnumbers during the test process who still wish to do on-the-fly recording.... and are disatisfied with the default behavior of the reporting because their header persists in showing the blanks etc.

 

While I understand that it's easier to build file paths / headers once, and then append the body content onto them, it would be especially elegant, if there was:

 

(a) a way for me to manually trigger (via a callback perhaps) a refresh of the entire header or

(b) if at the very least, the header section & file path were overwritten/updated once at the very end.

 

Since it seems to me that the header has to be re-written at least partially to account for the failure-chain logic, it wouldn't seem that much more work (or that much more inefficient) to just refresh the whole thing?