Variables

Variables

Variables can be added to both D3PLOT and T/HIS items, allowing data related to the capture to be made available in REPORTER. The REPORTER panel can be undocked and expanded to display the variables list by selecting Show Variables.

For T/HIS items, variables can be added containing properties of any of the curves in the selected graph or all the curves combined using the All Curves option. By default, T/HIS items will have variables for the MAX and MIN values taken over all curves in the selected graph. When selecting the curve for a newly created variable using the curve popup, curves are referred to as ICn, meaning Item Curve n, where n is the index of the curve in the selected graph. The curve label and number in the current session are also displayed in the popup.

For D3PLOT items, variables can be added for the MAX and MIN values of any of the plotted data components on any of the models. By default, D3PLOT items will have variables for the MAX and MIN values of all plotted data components for each model in the selected window.

Variables can be added using the + button and deleted using the X button next to the row.

Initially, variables will appear under New Variables until the item is captured, when they will move to Existing Variables. Variables will be given default names based on their item name in REPORTER (e.g. d3plot6_1, this4), variable type and model/curve that they relate to. However, these names and descriptions can be manually edited.

For D3PLOT items, the Entity ID and Entity Type tickboxes can be used to create additional variables to contain this information. These will have the same name as the original variable with either _ENT_ID or _ENT_TYPE appended.

For T/HIS items, the Add variables containing curve label tickbox will create an additional variable containing the curve label of the relevant curve, with _LABEL appended to the name.

Example of a D3PLOT item with two existing variables, referring to models in Window 1.

Example of a T/HIS item with two new variables and two existing variables, referring to curves in Graph 1.