Customizing the Reporting 

The data logged in the generated report as well as the report format depend on the rule base settings. This task explains how to specify these settings.
Open any document.

  1. Click the Custom Report icon

    The Tolerancing rule's base settings dialog box appears.
    Output Format option:
    • Html: to generate the report in html format.
    • File: to generate the report in text format.
      In this mode, the Description Length and the Show results options are activated by default.

    Description Length option:

    • Long: to insert the Help message specified at the check creation.
    • Short: if you do not need the Help message.

    Visualization type option:

    • Passed: to include in the report only information about the features for which the checks are valid.
    • False: to include in the report only information about the features for which the checks are invalid.
    • Both: to include in the report information about all the features on which a check has been applied.

    Show Results option:

    • By Rule: to organize your report data by rule in the file.
    • By Object: to organize your report data by object.
    • By Rule State: State to organize your report data by rule state.

  2. Click OK to apply the settings to the rule base.
Unless you want to modify the check report characteristics, you don't have to re-specify the settings each time you generate a report.