SPOT 4.1 Basic and Advanced Software Manual for SPOT Insight ...

Ch. 10 - ReportingIntroductionThe SPOT software includes a built-in reporting functionality that can be used either by itself or inconjunction with a SPOT database (Windows) to collect, organize, and present information related to yourimage captures. This chapter discusses the process of creating and running reports. It is divided into thefollowing sections:• Overview: The SPOT Sample Report (Windows)• Creating a Report• Running a Report• Distributing ReportsOverview: The SPOT Sample Report (Windows)When you create a report in SPOT, you are building a template to be applied to specific situations.Running the report applies the template to an image or images. For example, you might have one templatecalled Histology Report to document histology samples and another template called Cell Pathology Reportto document different cell cultures. Similarly, you might want to produce reports for production lineanalysis. In this case, you could define different templates for different parts, such as Part A AnalysisReport, Part B Analysis Report, etc…For your reference, a fully functional sample report is included with the SPOT software. This report can beused:• As an introduction to SPOT’s reporting features• As a basis from which to build additional reportsThe following section is a “visual tour” of the SPOT Sample Report.Open the SPOT Sample ReportThe SPOT Sample Report, Pathology Report, is a database report: it is based on the informationassociated with the images in the SPOT Sample Database. To open the SPOT Sample Report, follow thesesteps:1. Because the SPOT Sample Report is based on the SPOT Sample Database, you must first open thisdatabase:a. From the Database menu, select Open.b. Select SPOT Sample Database.c. Click on Open.198 User Guide to the SPOT Insight Camera