Estimated completion time→15 minutes.

In this practical session we will create an output report that includes a summary of user input and a table of results.

During the Authoring phase of development the above output is available at:

• EASA→Authoring→Testing

Once the EASAP has been Published a User will submit runs and view output from a similar page at:

• EASA→User→Results→My Results

• Find our EASAP at EASA→Author→Applications→My EASAPs.
• Click on it and then click on the EASAP Builder link in the new page.

• On the Tree right-click OUTPUT
  • Select Child→Add REPORT
  • Right-click report1
    • Select Child→Add HTML OUTPUT
    • Rename it body
    • Set the following parameter:

We need to extract some data from the underlying analysis software output file.

• Right-click report1
  • Select Sibling→Add DATA PROCESSING
  • Expand it.
  • Right-click LIST
    • Select Child→Add EXTRACT
    • Set the following parameter:

This file name is not in the pull-down list because it is created after the plate software application is run.

• Type in the file name and click somewhere else on the parameter table to store the text.
  • (<ENTER> will erase what has been typed and offer a choice from the existing files).

Use the Extract Tool to help in the creation of EXTRACT, FIND, and REPEAT objects:

• Right-click on extract1
  • Select Extract Tool at the bottom (see the following page).

When the Extract Tool window appears,

• Click on the Open button ().

At the top of the Load sample file window:

• Select Local file and browse to the tutorial files,
  • Select PLATE.OUT
  • Click OK.

The window should appear as follows:

• In the preview pane scroll down until the text ‘JOINT DISPLACEMENTS’.

• Highlight ‘JOINT DISPLACEMENTS’,
  • Right-click,
    • Select Add Literal Find from the icon bar.

JOINT DISPLACEMENTS will appear in the left Matched Lines column (next page).

• Highlight the number '1' below ‘JOINT DISPLACEMENTS’
  • Right-click
    • Select Add Variable Find

• After the Add Variable Find window opens
  • Name the 'delimited' object reference or DOR→ node
  • Select ‘Integer’ for the object reference type

• Highlight the first '0.000000' after 1
  • Right-click
    • Select Add Variable Find

• After the Add Variable Find window opens,
  • Name the object reference or DOR → xd
  • Select ‘Real’ for the type

• Highlight the second '0.000000' after '1'
  • Right-click
    • Select Add Variable Find

• After the Add Variable Find window opens
  • Name the object reference or DOR → yd
  • Select ‘Real’ for the type

• Highlight the last '0.000000' after '1'
  • Right-click
    • Select Add Variable Find

• After the Add Variable Find window opens
  • Name the object reference or DOR → zd
  • Select ‘Real’ for the type

These steps are visible below.

Next we set up a repeating FIND to pull out the desired data.

• Highlight the second line (node xd yd zd) in the Matched Lines column.

• After the line becomes yellow,
  • Select the Repeat () button within the Extract Tool toolbar.

• The Set Repeat Parameters window opens,
  • Select Match up to a maximum number of lines.
  • Enter 21 within the Maximum number of matches

• Select OK to close the Extract Tool window.

Finally we compute the maximum displacement on the plate. In the OUTPUT branch:

• Right-click SCALAR
  • Select Child→Add STATISTICS
  • Rename it MaxD
  • Set the parameters below:

• Time to save our work, click Save.

Now let’s display the calculated maximum displacement of the plate in our report.

• Right-click body
  • Select Sibling→Add TEXT OUTPUT
  • Rename it MaxDisp
  • Set the parameters below:

Now add a heading.

• Right-click MaxDisp
  • Select Sibling→Add HTML OUTPUT
  • Rename it heading
  • Set the following parameter:

Finally display our extracted nodal displacement data in a table.

• Right-click heading
  • Select Sibling→Add TABULATED DATA
  • Rename it DispTable
  • Set:

• Now save the EASAP, and then check the EASAP Tree to ensure that the OUTPUT branch looks like the following figure:

At this point, we can get a preliminary view of the report that will be generated by the objects in the OUTPUT branch.

Back in the browser window,

• Select EASA→Authoring→Testing
• Click on the View Results button () in the Output column for the prior test run.
• Click Re-generate report using the latest version of this EASAP

The following figure will appear in the browser window:

If the results pages do not look like what is shown above, there may be a problem with the original EASAP run or with the objects on the OUTPUT branch. We can try to resolve the problem now or wait until Practical Session 5 when we will test and troubleshoot the EASAP.

• After reviewing the Latest Output content, return to EASAP Builder and exit.

We are now finished with Practical Session 4.