How do the reports work?

The options SDL AuthorAssistant > Reporting - Active Document and SDL AuthorAssistant > Reporting - Multiple Documents let you obtain check reports. You can select a mix of .fm and .xml files or .book file for the reports.

SDL AuthorAssistant generates the report in HTML and opens it in the default browser.

The report generated by SDL AuthorAssistant has the following details:

  • Metadata for the report, such as the time it was generated, number of files checked, and the author name.

  • A cumulative summary of total errors categorized by the error type in the selected files.

  • Filenames in case you have generated the report for multiple files. You can click each link to see the list of errors categorized by the error type. Each error category also shows the exact error and the instances of each in the document.

  • The concluding section of the report summarizes the settings that were enabled and disabled when the report was run, details of translation memories, and termbases used.

Apart from providing information, reports provide a convenient option to perform checks. For details, see Check documents from report in How do I check documents?

You can also import the results of a report into a spreadsheet for further analysis. SDL provides a sample report (Start > All Programs > SDL > SDL AuthorAssistant 2010 > SDL Global AMS Report Analysis).

Open the report and select Load before data... to import the CSV file created when you ran the report. You can then select Load after data... to import report data created after you have made corrections using the Check Text option, so that you can see the impact of the changes that you have made.

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