Configuring the Data Report
For general information about the data report, see the corresponding section in the article about Generating Reports. A separate article is dealing with the Structure of the Data Report.
Before you 
Generate a Data Report for the entire 
project or individual sections of a project, you can specify what information will be included in the data report.
As long as you do not make a selection, the preset configuration applies.
In order to make your own selection of which data are recorded in the data report, there are two possibilities: firstly, the Report configuration and secondly, the context menus of the parameters. Both setting options are shown in the following figure.
Report configuration button in the Forms group of the Home ribbon. When the Report configuration mode is enabled, the button is highlighted in gray, and checkboxes appear in the Project explorer in front of the project tree elements (including the components) and in the forms in front of the identifiers of the individual data.Check marks are already set in the check boxes for the data to be exported by default. To change the setting, you can remove these check marks and put check marks in other places. Clicking on a check mark removes it. By clicking in an empty checkbox, you place a checkmark again and thus activate the output in the data report.
Selection in Project Explorer
In the Project explorer, individual components, the Schemes, the nodes of Simulation, Variant analysis, Variant comparison, and Parameter study can be selected for the data report by ticking the check boxes.
If you select an element in the project tree, e.g., a component, all elements above this element are automatically added to the data report.
If you select a parent element without already selecting subordinate elements, all subordinate elements are selected automatically. You can then remove individual components, the entire scheme with all components, or the Simulation node from the data report by unchecking them.
As long as a component is selected, the corresponding scheme is automatically selected for export.
Selection in the Forms
In the forms, if the Report configuration is enabled, you can assign each individual identifier (parameter) to the data report with a check mark in the check box.
Alternatively, as shown above, you can specify the output in the data report using the context menu of the identifier with the Add to report function (see the figure above). This option is available both with the Report configuration enabled and disabled.
Special Features of the Report Configuration
If no data are assigned to the data report in the form of a component, this component is not output in the data report even if it is selected in the Project explorer.
The identifiers selected in the forms only appear in the data report if the corresponding element in the Project explorer also has a check mark for the data report.
If you only change the selection in the Project explorer, the default export settings are applied for the identifiers of the selected elements as long as no own specification is made in the forms.
Closing the Report Configuration
When you have selected all desired elements for the data report, close the Report configuration view as you opened it: via the the Forms group in the Home ribbon with the Report configuration button. Then the checkboxes are hidden, the button is no longer highlighted in gray.
The selected configuration remains until the next change.
Setting: Automatic Assignment of New and Changed Values
In addition to the report configuration described in the previous section, there is the setting Output changed data values in the data report in the 
Advanced settings (see the following figure).
If this option is activated with a check mark, a value is automatically included in the data report whenever its input value has been changed or entered for the first time. After updating the form window (e.g., by changing the tab within the form or when leaving the component), a check mark appears automatically in front of the corresponding identifier.
Data Report Template
The template for the data report TOP-Energy-Report-Template-en.dotm is typically located in the user directory:
C:\program files\TOP-Energy$version$\program\modules\efdoc\ini.
On this basis, you can create your own template by adapting the logo and formatting. No changes may be made to the macro.
You can change and customize everything before the table of contents as well as the header and footer. You can also insert as many pages as you want before the table of contents.
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