RadiMation Application Note 158

How specific devices can be excluded from the table of used equipment in the report

This application note shows how the general information of the device driver, can be used to indicate to the report generator that selected devices should not be included in the list of used equipment.

Some anechoic chambers have a 'Test in Progress' indicator, which is automatically controlled by RadiMation^®, using a switch matrix device driver. This switch matrix device driver is however not relevant for the actual execution of the test, and there is no reason to have the device included in the final report.

The combination of using the general information items, and the possibility to perform SQL queries on tables that are inserted by the report generator are used to achieve this.

General information items of a device driver

Each device driver in RadiMation^®, also has a list of information items associated with it. These information items include:

Description

The name that is shown in the testsite as the name of the device.

Brand

The brand (or manufacturer) of the device.

Type	The specific type (or model) of the device.

ID	An internal identification (or asset) number that is assigned to the device.

Serial number

The serial number of the device.

Device drivers versions

The version number of the device drivers installation that is used to control the device.

The value of these information items can be modified using the Edit button.

It is also possible to add additional information items to this list of information items. This for example allows to add fields like 'Storage rack location' or 'Responsible engineer' to the device, to maintain relevant additional administrative details.

For the purpose of excluding the device from the report, it is possible to add an information item with the name "Exclude from report", where its value is set to "Yes".

Conclusion

Using an additional information item in the device driver settings, can be used by the report generator to perform additional filtering of the rows of the 'Used equipment table'. This allows to only include the desired and actual devices in the final report in an automated process, without the need for the test engineer to manually modify the report.

This is one possibility, but the same technique can also be used for similar tasks.