Custom Reports Window

The custom reports window allows you to build your own report templates for systems and powerplant analysis, structural analysis and zonal analysis.

(If you want to generate one of the predefined reports that are specifically designed for submission to the ATA Maintenance Review Board, use the MSI Report Window, Structural Reports Window or Zonal Reports Window instead.)

To open the custom reports window, make sure the appropriate hierarchy tab has focus, then choose Reports > Custom Reports on the relevant ribbon tab.

Select Items

In the Select Items area, specify the items, structures or zones that will be included in the report. You can generate a report that contains data from a single analysis or from multiple analyses together.

Selected Report Forms

The Available Reports area displays all of the available report forms that are not yet selected. This includes all of the available report forms that are shipped with the software as well as any custom report templates and custom queries that you have created.

The Selected Reports area displays the forms that have been selected for inclusion in the generated report, in the order in which they will appear.

You can double-click a form or use the Include (>, >>) or Exclude (<, <<) icons to move the form between the areas.

Drag and drop the selected forms into the desired position or use the Up/Down icons.

For tabular report forms, use the Sort By and Ascending columns to specify how to sort the data. For example, you can generate an MSI Tasks (Detailed) report that sorts by Task Description in ascending order of their descriptions.

Report Settings

If you want to customize any of the report settings (e.g., font, paper size, add a logo, etc.), click the Report Settings button to open the Report Customization/Settings window.

Templates Manager

If you want to create or edit any of the custom report forms, click the Templates Manager button to open the Report Templates Manager.

In a secure database, only users with the "Manage MPC settings" permission have the ability to modify or delete report templates.

Generate Report

Before generating the report, make sure the desired output type is selected (Word Document or Excel Spreadsheet) and then click Generate Report.

For custom MSI reports and custom SSI reports, if any of the selected forms contain task information, when you click Generate Report you will be prompted to select exactly which task types to include in the report and whether each selected task type will begin on a new page.

Tips

  • If you have set your computer to use large fonts, you will need to set your screen display to at least 1152x864 for all forms to display correctly. If you have set your computer to use small fonts, you will need to set your screen display to 600x800.
  • If you have enabled the "Check spelling as you type" and "Check grammar as you type" options in Microsoft Word and you have a very large number of spelling/grammar issues in your data set, then Microsoft Word may stop responding during report generation, resulting in a blank document and possibly error messages such as "RPC Server Unavailable." If this occurs, you can temporarily disable these options in Word and regenerate the report.
  • The regional settings for Windows and Microsoft Office (Word and/or Excel) must be compatible when generating reports in MPC.
  • The number of forms in your report cannot exceed the maximum supported by Microsoft Excel. Generated reports will include as many forms as possible up to the limit, which will vary depending on the version of Excel that you are using, and will omit the rest.

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