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After performing a site survey and viewing its results in the main application window, you can create a report that contains all the information and visualizations related to your survey. To configure the report options and generate a report, click Project => Generate Report in the main application menu.
The report generation dialog allows you to configure the following report options:
| § | Plans and Surveys. This frame lists the available floor plans and survey paths to be included in the report. Depending on where and when the surveys were conducted, you may want to check all or only some of the survey checkboxes. By default, the selection is the same as in the main application window. At the bottom of this frame, you can also see the indication of the Current AP selection mode, which tells you if the report will be generated for all or for only the selected APs. Again, the selection is the same as in the main application window. If you want to change the AP selection mode, close the report dialog and change the mode, using the corresponding buttons on the tool bar of the main window. By default, TamoGraph merges the data collected during all the selected surveys. Check Don't merge surveys if you want to get a separate report for each of the survey paths. This might be useful if you want to generate a report illustrating the changes in WLAN characteristics depending on varying conditions, e.g. multiple surveys of the same office when you test different AP placements at the deployment stage. Normally, Don't merge surveys should not be checked. |
| § | Project information. Use the Surveyor, Location, and Description fields to specify additional information about your project. |
| § | Visualizations. This list allows you to select which visualizations you would like to see in the report by checking or unchecking the corresponding boxes. Check Map with no visualizations if you would like to have the original site map / floor plan included. Add per-AP visualizations is an important option that allows you to add additional visualizations for each of the selected APs. For example, if you want to create a report for five APs and include the Signal Level visualization with the Add per-AP visualizations option, the report will contain one cumulative signal level visualization for all of the five APs and, additionally, five separate visualizations for each of the APs. Without the Add per-AP visualizations option, the report will contain only one cumulative signal level visualization that includes data on all of the five APs. The Add per-AP visualizations option is available only when the Don't merge surveys option is turned off. |
| § | Additional items to include. Check the corresponding boxes to include additional information pertaining to your site survey. Checking Walkabout paths will add survey paths to the site map(s) (not available if you do not include the Map with no visualizations item); checking AP list will add the table that lists all of the APs observed during the survey; checking Map descriptions will add the descriptions (if any) of the floor plan(s) entered by the user; checking Survey comments will add the comments (if any) for specific surveys entered by the user. |
| § | Output settings. Use the Format drop-down list to select the report format. You can choose between PDF, HTML, HTML (single file), and KMZ (Google Earth™) formats. The difference between the HTML and HTML (single file) is that in the former, images are stored in a separate subfolder, whereas in the latter, images are embedded into a single .MHT file, which can be natively viewed only in Microsoft Internet Explorer. KMZ files can be used for viewing results of GPS surveys in Google Earth; see the Google Earth Integration chapter for details. The Paper size drop-down list can be used to specify the size of the report pages: A4 or Letter. |
Once you have configured all the options, you may want to customize its look (fonts, colors, logos, etc.) by clicking Customize and then clicking Save to select the file name and have TamoGraph generate the report. Check the Open report after generation box to have the file opened by the associated viewer upon generation. If you would like to print the report without saving it to a file, click Print. Alternatively, you can first save the report and then print it from the associated viewer (Adobe Acrobat in the case of PDF files or your favorite browser in the case of HTML files).
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