The Automatic Report Selection tool allows you to run multiple reports at one time. The Report Generator dialog box is not displayed for each report and no user input is required once launched. This feature can be used to generate any number of output files or to automatically place report tables on drawings. The first step to using the Automatic Reports feature is to create the format files using the Report Format File Setup dialog box defining the report options and output as described above. You can create any number of format files for the same report if you use the same report with different options. Once your format files are created you are ready to run the reports automatically.
If any of your selected format files contain Table Output, if there are no existing, updatable matching report tables, the report tables insert on new drawings. If you are running multiple reports with multiple table output, each report gets its own. You can specify the first drawing name for any necessary new drawings and the template name. Subsequent drawing names generate automatically by incrementing the previous drawing's name.
If you frequently run the same group of reports you can save the set of format files as a Report Grouping. To set up a Report Grouping, add all your format files as if you are going to run the reports then click Save Report Grouping. The information about the format files is saved in a Report Grouping file with an ".rgf" extension. The next time you want to run that report set, open the Automatic Reports Selection dialog box, click Open Report Grouping, and select the ".rgf" file you previously saved; you are ready to run the reports.
When you click OK, the reports run in the selected order. If the format file contains output options, the files are created. If the format file contains table output options that report's tables are inserted. If existing, matching report tables are found, they are updated, otherwise new table objects insert on new drawings.