How to Share a Report

How to Share a Report

The ALGOR Report Wizard, which can be accessed from Superdraw, the FEA Editor environment, the Superview IV Results environment or within the Report environment, can be used to automatically generate an HTML-based report of your analysis input and results (see Figure 1). (Internet Explorer 5 or greater is recommended to properly display all current report features.)

Figure 1: ALGOR HTML report displayed in Internet Explorer

This report can be shared with others by the following methods:

Published to the Internet or your company intranet site by using one of the following connections:
- File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
- Hypertext Transfer Protocol Post (HTTP Post)
- FrontPage Extended Web (or FrontPage Extensions)
- Microsoft Site Server Content Deployment (SSCD)
Sent to someone who can then view the report with any Web browser capable of viewing HTML files.

Following is guidance on how to share a report by using these methods.

Publishing to the Internet or an Intranet

When running the ALGOR Report Wizard to create a report, Step 5 provides the option for you to publish the report directly to a Web site or an FTP site (see Figure 2).

Figure 2: Step 5 of the ALGOR HTML Report Wizard

Activate this option by clicking on "Publish this report to the Web". A checkmark will appear in the box to the left. Then click on the "Finish" button.

The report will be created. Then, the Microsoft Web Publishing Wizard will be accessed (see Figure 3).

Figure 3: The Microsoft Web Publishing Wizard

You can use the Microsoft Web Publishing Wizard to do the following:

Select a previously configured Web server or specify a new server including the connection method and the target Uniform Resource Locator (URL).
Publish your files to the specified Web server.

Then, the report can be viewed from the published location using a Web browser.

Sending Report Files

If you want to send a report to a colleague, what files are needed?

When a report is created, all files comprising the report are stored in a folder with the same name as the model and a "_rpt" extension. (For example, in Figure 1, the folder is MEMS_ACCEL2_rpt.) Therefore, send the _rpt folder and its contents. Then the recipient will have all the files needed to view the report.

Here are some additional considerations for sending a report:

You can compress the complete _rpt folder with a file compression utility such as WinZip.
The report can be sent via e-mail, on CD-ROM or by any other means of file transfer.

For more information about the ALGOR Report Wizard, refer to the ALGOR User's Guide.