How to include PDF Report Generator Tool in Deployment?

[SebastianBengtsson]

Hi 

I have enabled Generate PDF Report in Report Options in TestStand 2019.
The PDF reports are generated on the development machine as expected.
After creating an MSI installer via the Deployment Utility and installing to a clean windows 10 machine, the Operator Interface generates an error message. The xml report is generated as expected, but bot the PDF report.
 
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Details:
Generation of the PDF report failed as the converter tool is not found. Install TestStand PDFReportGenerator tool to generate PDF reports.
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Error Code:
0; User-defined error code.
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Location:
Step 'Validate if HTML to PDF Converter tool is installed' of sequence 'ConvertReportToPDFAndUploadToSystemLink' in 'NI_ReportGenerator.seq'
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How do I include the PDF Converter tool in the deployment so that it gets installed on the target machine?
 
Thanks
Sebastian Bengtsson

[Shashidhar]

You also need to deploy 'TestStand Tools' component for generating PDF reports.

-Shashidhar

[SebastianBengtsson]

Hi Shashidhar
 
Thanks for your quick reply. Highly appreciated.
 
I am unfortunately having difficulties understanding exactly what "TestStand Tools component" is and how to include it in the deployment.
I tried to google this, but since the words "teststand tool" is quite non-specific I could not find the exact instructions.
 
Am I supposed to find a "TestStand Tools" checkbox in the Distributed Files tab in the Deployment Utility?
The only item I could find was ToolMenu.ini. That did not solve the problem.

Or is this selected elsewhere in the Deployment Utility?

Sebastian

[Shashidhar · Accepted solution]

In 'Installer Options' tab, use 'Drivers and Components' to launch the dialog whose snapshot I have attached.

Uncheck 'Only display runtime installers'. Then, select the 'TestStand Tools' as shown in the attached snapshot.

-Shashidhar

[SebastianBengtsson]

Wonderful!

Thank you and have a great weekend