Limiting decimal places in results

[jvh75021]

Some of my measurements from VIs are coming back with an exceedingly long string of decimal points. Is there a way to have TestStand globally trim it down globally or individually for the report?

Thanks,

jvh 

[asbo]

I don't know about globally (there may be one buried in reporting options somewhere) but for Numeric Limit steps at the very least you can use the Numeric Format field on the Limits tab to adjust your precision.

[Teds · Accepted solution]

I set the following in the ReportOptions within my ReportOptions callback:

Parameters.ReportOptions.NumericFormat = "%$.2f"

Or under Configure->Report Options select the 'Edit Format...' button near the Default Numeric Format control.

Help indicates: 

"Determines how the report formats numeric values for which you did not specify a numeric format."

Thanks,

PH

[asbo]

That was embarassingly straightforward 😉 Unfortunately, this field is disabled for ATML reporting (which I'm going to use as an excuse for not knowing about it) - the NumericFormat parameters still gets passed into the support DLL, but it doesn't affect anything. Anyone know a slick way of globally setting the numeric format for ATML reports?

[jvh75021]

Thanks folks. A big help as I must deploy today..... 

[PhillipBrooks]

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Asbo wrote:
That was embarassingly straightforward 😉 Unfortunately, this field is disabled for ATML reporting (which I'm going to use as an excuse for not knowing about it) - the NumericFormat parameters still gets passed into the support DLL, but it doesn't affect anything. Anyone know a slick way of globally setting the numeric format for ATML reports?

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I think the ATML report data is simply XML. XML is more of a database than a document, so a number would be recorded in the file as it's datatype (double,I32 etc...)

I suspect you would need to modify the ATML stylesheet in order to change the way the floating point values are presented in a browser...

[asbo]

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Phillip Brooks wrote:

I suspect you would need to modify the ATML stylesheet in order to change the way the floating point values are presented in a browser...

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Fair point, but why does XML reporting get to modify it then? 🙂

[Anand_Jain]

Numeric format of measurements displayed in the report can be modified both in generated xml and/or in the stylesheet. It is recommended for customers to modify the stylesheet to display meansurement data with the required numeric format rather than generating the XML with a specific numeric format. Using the recommended approach preservers the measurement data in case it is required in the future. But, we understand that not everybody wants to modify the stylesheet, hence TS provides a way for customers to modify the numeric format of the generated xml also.

Regarding ATML reports, there is a known bug which prevents users from setting the numeric format for the generated XML.

This will be fixed in a future version of TS. 

Hope this helps

Regards

Anand Jain

National Instruments

[asbo]

Thanks for the info, Anand.

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Anand Jain wrote:

Regarding ATML reports, there is a known bug which prevents users from setting the numeric format for the generated XML.

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Is there any workaround in the interim, by chance?

[Anand_Jain]

asbo,

What version of TS are you using?

Regards

Anand Jain

National Instruments