Creating and viewing reports
Autoreports (registered version)
Open the report dialog via toolbar button <Report>.
Define a file format and
filename for the report. Note, that even if you intend to create a report onto
a printer, it has to be created as a file first.
Text, HTML-, Rich Text Edit, MS Word and CSV format are supported. Word reports
require MS Word to be started previously.
Select the tests to be included into the report afterwards. Add header and comment
as you like it.
There is also a useful feature that allows to reduce detail info. A huge
amount of very technical and specialized data can be excluded from the report
output by enabling the checkbox.
Finally, you may also enable
several special options:
Option to create a silent report: Enabling this option will suppress
any warning, error or inquiry messages. Note that most of the common messages
are suppressed by default anyway.
Option to hide user specific data (Data protection): If you want to send
your report to someone else, it may be advisable to exclude information like
user and company name, serial numbers and keys. The corresponding fields will
be filled with 'x' instead.
Click <Create Report> to start report creation. You may abort the report creation at any time by clicking <Cancel>.
Auto reports (registered version only)
In order to run Dr. Hardware in such a way that it automatically opens the report dialog or even creates a report at once without any program interaction you have to start the program with the commandline parameter -r: (drhard -r).
Additionally you can specify a file name as output target. Command line parameters: -r filename.ext (space character between -r and filename!)
Examples:
drhard -r textreport.txt
drhard -r c:\myreports\htmlreport.htm
drhard -r commadelimitedreport.csv
drhard -r rtfreport.rtf
Important: Tests that you want to include into the report have to be checked
in the configuration file drhard.ini [RE_Report sections]
The autoreport option enables you to collect data of numerous computers quickly and with minimum effort.
A previously created report can be loaded into the program, which is connected with the corresponding file extension, via Toolbar button Report/"View Report"
On most systems that are Notepad or Wordpad for Text, Wordpad (or an office program) for RTF/DOC and your browser for HTML files.