Reporting, Printing and Exporting Diagram

SpiceLogic Decision Analysis software (Rational Wil, Decision Tree software, etc.) comes with a rich reporting feature. Once you have prepared your Decision Analysis model, you can get a report in PDF or Excel. You can export the Diagram Image directly to the Clipboard so that you can paste to another application like MS Word, Paint, etc. You can also save the image as a JPG, PNG or BMP file.

PDF Report

Say, you have created a decision tree like this

Sample decision tree used throughout the reporting walkthrough, prepared so PDF, Excel, and diagram-image exports can be demonstrated against it.

Now, you can go to the Reporting menu from the ribbon can click PDF, as shown below.

Reporting section of the ribbon with the PDF button highlighted, used to generate a complete PDF report of the current decision analysis model.

Once you click the PDF button, you will see a report generated in PDF like this. The screenshots are resized to a small size for displaying on this web page, so, the images may look distorted here, but, the report looks good in reality.

First page of a generated PDF report showing the decision tree diagram and high-level parameters of the analysis.

You will see the report contains all meaningful analysis, parameters, results, etc.

Later pages of the generated PDF report containing detailed analysis sections, metrics, parameter listings, and result tables.

You will find all metrics, Sensitivity Analysis, Charts, etc are exported in the report.

Excel Report

Same as the PDF reporting, you can get the report in Excel as well, from the Reporting Menu as shown previously.

Excel export of the decision analysis report, with overview tabs listing model parameters and core metrics in spreadsheet form.

Additional Excel report tabs containing sensitivity analysis tables, chart data, and per-node metrics exported from the decision tree model.

Export Diagram Image

You can export just the diagram image too. From the Reporting menu in the Ribbon, you can find the Diagram Image option for reporting, Exporting diagram image is so common use-case, there is more than one way to perform this operation. The quickest way is to right-click in the diagram to bring up the context menu for the diagram. There, you will find the option for copying the image to the clipboard so that you can paste the image directly to other applications like MS Word, Microsoft Paint, etc.

Right-click context menu on the decision tree diagram with options to copy the diagram image to the clipboard or save it directly as an image file.

In the same context menu, you can see that, there is an option to "Save Diagram Image As", clicking that menu will let you save the diagram as an image file. You can also find the diagram export option from the Ribbon's Reporting section.

Reporting section of the ribbon showing the diagram image export buttons, an alternative entry point to the context-menu export options.

Not only that, but you can also see the diagram export option from the overall Application menu as well.

Print and Print Preview

You can print the decision model from the Application menu -> Print, or Print Preview option.

Once you click the Print Preview button, you will see a print preview window shows up. The print preview window will actually create a PDF report and display that PDF report to that print preview window.

Print Preview window which internally generates the PDF report and displays it for review before printing the decision model.

A problem situation

When opening the print preview window, you may face this window.

Run-as-administrator warning displayed when opening Print Preview without elevated permissions, with guidance to either elevate or print the saved PDF instead.

If you face this issue, you just need to run the application as Admin. Because this feature requires some elevated permission which is available if it is open as Admin. But, do not worry if you do not or cannot run the application as Admin. Simply create a PDF report and print the pdf file using your PDF viewer software.