How to skip sequence call step result recording in teststand

[ramjeev]

Hi,

I am having a sequence call in one of my sequences and want to disable the step recording only for this step. But the steps present in the sequence call need to work as per their step "Record Result" option.

I tried unchecking the "Record Result" option available for the sequence call. this is causing disabling the record of results for all of the steps present in that particular sequence irrespective of the status of the individual steps present the sequence.

Pl guide me in this regard. 

[dug9000]

The results for steps in a subsequence are attached to the results of the sequence call after the sequence is done running. If you disable results on the sequence call then the results of the subsequence it calls are discarded after it's done running. The resultlist is basically a tree structure with sequence call results being branches.

Hope this helps,

-Doug

[Norbert_B]

This is not possible because the result list of the subsequence is part of the result container from the sequence call step. So you need the result of the sequence call in order to know the results of the subsequence.

You can, nevertheless, change the reporting mechanism "to drop the entry for the sequence call step".

You can find additional information on customizing reports here.

hope this helps,
Norbert

[hejy]

I have the same problem. Could you tell me what is the meaning: "You can, nevertheless, change the reporting mechanism "to drop the entry for the sequence call step".". How to drop the entry for the sequence call step?

[RayFarmer]

did you check out the link from Norbert, especially the section "Filtering the ResultList".

[hejy]

Thank you for your answer. But I cannot find any helpful things from that link. Are there some examples and details about "drop the entry for the sequence call step"?

Again, my problem is I want to skip the sequence call step result in result report but keep the steps results that present in the sequence call.

[Norbert_B]

Since the complete ResultList from the subsequence is part of the SequenceCall step, you cannot delete the SequenceCall step result from the ResultList (local variable from the calling sequence) but expect TestStand to keep the ResultList from the subsequence...

So if my understanding from your request is correct, you cannot do what you are up to...

The only possible way for this is to adopt the mechanism of the report generation (leaving the ResultList as-is).

Norbert

[RayFarmer]

You need to use the Callback Sequence SequenceFilePostResultListEntry and set the DiscardResult TRUE if the Step is a SequenceCall type. But I think this will remove all the results from the SequenceCall not just the SequenceCall Step result.

Therefore you probably will have to use the ModifyResultBody callback to remove the SequenceCall step result from the Report Text.

[hejy]

I have tryed the first way, and alll the results from the SequenceCall do removed.

The second way, I do not kown how to modify the ModifyResultBody to remove the SequenceCall step result.

[Norbert_B]

I think that your request is not such simple. The problem you are facing is that the SequenceCall step is embedded into the report in a special way. If you take a close look into the mechanism of reporting (as guided in the quoted article), you will see that the SequenceCall takes a special position: It does generate indenting for most report formats (for instance) and some more things.

So simply deleting the string representing the SequenceCall step is possible, but what do you do with indenting? What about formatting of the subsequences' results?

To be plain: It is possible to do as you like, but you will have to dig into the default reporting mechanism and replace certain parts with your own custom components. That will be some development effort.

hope this helps,

Norbert