All tokens in a Text Report will be written to a text file, with custom separator (see below the Encoding Options). The first row of the text file will contain the column header of each exported item (see below the Header Options). A new row of outputted values will be created for each iteration. Note: Pictures cannot be exported to this type of report.

 

Text File Report Options dialog is comprised of three sections:

 

•Display Text

 

•Running Options

 

•File Options

This section (Figure 8.45) has four sub-sections:

 

oAppend Options

With the radio buttons, you can choose to Start with an empty file or Combine the output with the data in an existing file. If you combine data from an existing file, FCS Express will join the Batch Processing output with the data that exists in the text file entered in the text box. The final output (new iterations plus existing data) will be written to another text file.

 

oOutput file options

This option goes along with the previous one.

When Start with an empty file is selected in the Append Options, a file name must be specified. See Save Layout - File Options for a description of batch generated filenames.

Available file extensions are .tab, .prn and .csv. To generate a Txt file, the .txt extension needs to be manually specified in the file name. When combining data with an existing file, the destination file can be a new file or the existing text file.

 

Other options available in this sections are:

▪Ask for confirmation before overwriting an existing file

▪Create output folder if it does not exist

 

oEncoding Options

Two drop-down menus allow to select the desired Separator (Tab, Space or Comma) and the Encoding (ANSI or Unicode (UTF8)).

 

oHeader Options

This check box defines whether the first exported raw will contain the column header of each exported item.