Estimated completion time → 15 minutes.

In this practical session we create an output report on the EASA→Authoring→Testing page. The HTML report will include a summary of user input and a table of results.

• Find our EASAP at EASA→Author→Applications→My EASAPs
• Click on the EASAP
• 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 one parameter,
            • File: → report.html

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 → File: PLATE.OUT

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

In order to help in the creation of EXTRACT, FIND, and REPEAT objects,

• Right-click extract1
  • Select Extract Tool at the bottom.

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 folder with 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 appears
  • Highlight JOINT DISPLACEMENTS
    • Right-click and select Add Literal Find from the icon bar.

JOINT DISPLACEMENTS will appear in the left Matched Lines column.

• Next, highlight the number 1 below JOINT DISPLACEMENTS
  • Right-click and select Add Variable Find
• After the Add Variable Find window opens,
  • Name the DOR node and select Integer for the DOR type.
• Highlight the first 0.000000 after 1
  • Right-click and select Add Variable Find
• After the Add Variable Find window opens,
  • Name the DOR xd and select Real for the DOR type.
• Highlight the second 0.000000 after 1,
  • Right-click and select Add Variable Find
• After the Add Variable Find window opens,
  • Name the DOR yd and select Real for the DOR type.
• Highlight the last 0.000000 after 1,
  • Right-click and select Add Variable Find
• After the Add Variable Find window opens,
  • Name the DOR zd and select Real for the DOR type.

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, find the DATA PROCESSING,
  • Right-click SCALAR
    • Select Child→Add STATISTICS
      • Rename it MaxD
        • Set,

• Time to save our work, click Save.

• 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,

• Let's add a heading.
  • Right-click MaxDisp
    • Select Sibling→Add HTML OUTPUT
      • Rename it heading
        • Set → Text:<h4>Table of Plate Displacement</h4>

• Finally let's 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.
  • Check the EASAP Tree to ensure that the OUTPUT branch looks like this,

• At this point, we may get a preliminary view of the report that will be generated by the objects in the OUTPUT branch.
  • Back in your browser window
    • Select EASA→Authoring→Testing
      • Click on the View Results button () in the Output column for the previous test run.
        • The following will appear in the browser window,

If your results pages do not look like what is shown above, you may have a problem with the original EASAP run or with the objects on your OUTPUT branch. We can try to resolve the problem now or wait until Session 5 where we will be testing and troubleshooting our EASAP.

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

We have now finished Session 4. Let's continue with Session 5.

Introduction | Session 1 | Session 2 | Session 3 | Session 4 | Session 5