We are trying to write a script that save all of our dashboards to the same location as the .fsm as .png files. parts of the attached code seem to work individually but as a whole something is not working. We used (Automatic Exporting of Dashboard Image - FlexSim Community) this string for to help write most of the code in "OnRunStop".
Apolgies,
I had some saving issues yesterday. This is the file I meant to upload. The "view" doesn't seam to change the selected Dashboard like it should and the save dashboard doesn't work either...
This node doesn't exist:
node("/1>Documents/"+DashName+"/1+/..",views())
If you look in the views tree you'll see that you're missing the "Dashboard" folder and also that the nodes inside that have no name.
To loop through all the dashboards you would want to change your code to something like this:
treenode graphPanel;
string DashName;
string filePath;
treenode activeDashboards=views().find("active>Documents/Dashboard");
treenode dashboard;
forobjectlayerunder(activeDashboards)
{
dashboard= node("+/~",a);
DashName = dashboard.name;
// applicationcommand("activatedockedview", dashboard);
graphPanel = node("GraphPanel", dashboard);
filePath = "C:\\Desktop\\"+DashName+".png";
for (int i = 1; i <= content(graphPanel); i++) {
treenode widget = rank(graphPanel, i);
if (getvarnum(widget, "showingSizers"))
function_s(widget, "hideSizers");
}
viewtofile(graphPanel, filePath);
}
For me this only works if all the dashboards are visible which may be impractical.
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Hello @Jacob Noltner,
The problem with the other solutions is the timing of the charts being drawn before the file is exported. We could not come up with a consistent solution. The other option besides exporting as a PNG is to export HTML. This is a better method when automatically exporting the charts because all the data is exported with the file, so it doesn't need to wait for things to be drawn. The charts will be drawn later when the HTML file is opened.
Jeanette thank you for you time with this. The main reason we are thinking about moving away from the print all HTML files was because depending on the size and shape of each dashboard it can be hard to predict the layout/shape the HTML file will take. Because we are typically creating reports for our clients in either MS Word or as a .PDF we end up doing a very tedious task of screen shotting each section of the combined HTML and pasting them into our reports. If we end up rerunning the scenario the copy paste task would have to be done all over again. Our thought was instead was to make more dashboard that do not require scrolling and print all to PNG as they seem to be the screen shot we are typically after. I think I will post to the development page that dashboards be exportable to a more report-friendly format in the future as that is really the end goal we are after.
Another reason we were thinking about moving away from the HTML export was reliability. I'd estimate 1 in every 10 exports for the last project I was on the HTML would export blank cells when the dashboard had values. There were a few times we didn't catch the bad export until after the FS file was closed and would required a lengthy rerun of the simulation just to export the bad html file again.
We have talked with the developers about this. They believe what they created with the HTML that I shared with you will be more reliable. However, the reality is that they did not intend for a use like this. This can be placed as an idea for them to improve upon FlexSim.
There are existing models, which are still updating line charts after hitting stop or reset in dashboard control. So I am not convinced, that a screen shot is an accurate solution to get report data.
BUT if it is still working for you, you can automate taking screen shots by command line driven external programs. You would call them for within FlexSim.
Hello @Jason Lightfoot,
mine and @Jason Lightfoot answers are similar so we worked on this together for a short amount of time. It ended up working on my computer but not his. Could you let us know if the following code works for you?
treenode graphPanel;
string DashName;
string filePath;
treenode activeDashboards=views().find("active>Documents/Dashboard");
treenode dashboard;
forobjectlayerunder(activeDashboards)
{
dashboard= node("+/~",a);
DashName = dashboard.name;
applicationcommand("activatedockedview", dashboard);
for(int j =1; i<=100; i++){
for(int k =1; k<=100; k++){
}
}
graphPanel = node("GraphPanel", dashboard);
filePath = "C:\\Users\\jeanette.fullmer\\Desktop\\"+DashName+".png";
for (int i = 1; i <= content(graphPanel); i++) {
treenode widget = rank(graphPanel, i);
if (getvarnum(widget, "showingSizers"))
function_s(widget, "hideSizers");
}
viewtofile(graphPanel, filePath);
}
I tired some things and commented the code but could not get it to work...
The post that you linked provided a few methods to create the image. I found that Jacob Gillespie's answer worked.
treenode view = node("/1>Documents/Dashboard/1+/..",views());
treenode graphPanel = node("GraphPanel", ownerobject(view));
string filePath = "C:\\Users\\user.name\\Desktop\\img.png";
// This hides the sizers, you could remove this
for (int i = 1; i <= content(graphPanel); i++) {
treenode widget = rank(graphPanel, i);
if (getvarnum(widget, "showingSizers"))
function_s(widget, "hideSizers");
}
// This saves the dashboard as a png
viewtofile(graphPanel, filePath);
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