Word Report Templates

The software provides Word report templates, which give you the ability to generate data and results and to create customized Word reports to display these results. You can use the Word report template to create a professional looking report, complete with a customized header and footer and plots and analyzed data that are created on-the-fly based on the latest analysis of the associated data sources. Once you have created a template, you can change the associated data sources and create a different report. This allows you to create one template, then quickly generate different reports simply by changing which analyses the report gets its data from.

You can add a new Word report template to a project by choosing Insert > Reports and Plots > Word Report Template.

Report Templates Wizard

When you create a new Word report template in an existing project, the Report Templates Wizard will appear.

Use the Default Data Source field to specify an analysis that will serve as the default data source for functions in the Word report template. Click Select to open a window that will allow you to select an analysis. In BlockSim note that the results model used for the data source is specified in the Report folio model field on the Analysis Settings page of the diagram control panel. For analytical diagrams, you can base report results on either the analytical results or the fitted model; for simulation and phase diagrams, you can base report results on either the simulation results or the fitted model.

Selecting a default data source allows you to create a custom report that can be applied to other analyses as it populates the Data Source Index drop-down list in the Function Wizard that you can use when building functions.

Choose Based on an existing Template if you want to choose a predefined template to base the Word report template on instead of starting with a blank Word report template.
- Choose Standard if you want to use one of the standard templates that are shipped with the software.
- Choose User if you want to use one of the Word report templates that you have previously defined. You can save any report that you create as a template by choosing Document > Template > Save Template.