Autotable Objects

Autotable objects

An autotable object in REPORTER is a table which REPORTER will create when the report is generated. An an example, you may want to run multiple analyses and produce a summary table with one line in a table for each analysis. The autotable object allows you to do this.

The above image shows the menu to create a table for a set of pedestrian headform analyses. We want to create a table with 5 columns (as shown below) ; the impact zone, the x, y, and z impact points and the calculated HIC.

To do this we would run each of the analyses and post-process them with a REPORTER template. Each analysis would calculate the ZONE, X, Y, Z and HIC and store them as variables . These variables would then be saved to a file called reporter_variables . The autotable object in the summary template can then pick up these reporter_variables files and use them to create the table rows. One row will be created for each file that is read.