On the fly reporting

[jvh75021]

Trying to find some info on On-the-Fly reporting. My reports are xml format. I have on the fly checked and also set break on step failure. When the program breaks on failure there is nothing on the reports tab, nor a file in the reports directory. So maybe I misunderstand what on the fly is supposed to do. What actually happens when it is enabled.

thanks,

jvh 

[Norbert_B]

jvh,

there is the explanation about on the fly reporting in the TestStand Reference Manual on page 6-17/6-18.

I quote the following of this:

"When you enable the Conserve Memory and Only Display Latest Results
option for HTML and ASCII reports, on-the-fly reporting periodically
purges internal data structures. As a result, the report TestStand displays in
the Report pane of the Execution window shows only the results for the
steps on-the-fly reporting has not yet purged"

Since the process of logging and purging is concurrent to the execution of the sequence, you will most propably see an empty report in the report view when running into a break. This is because the report is getting purged an so no data will be displayed.

hope this helps,

Norbert