I have written some nice reports for internal use, both text reports and HTML reports. Both displayed fine in 16.6.
In 17.2, my text reports are still OK but the HTML reports just display the raw HTML text instead of being formatted and displaying as an HTML page. The Allegro SKILL 17.2 manual, page 1272, still mentions both types of reports being available. The included Allegro reports that are HTML format still work OK, so it’s something about my custom HTML reports.
I looked on COS and the PCB Design forum and didn’t see anything. Neither does $CDSROOT\share\pcb\examples\skill have anything about this that I can find. Then I searched for “html” in User Prefs and found a couple variables. Unchecking “allegro_html_qt” makes the reports display properly. Now knowing this, I found a few entries on COS that sounds like the HTML viewer has changed in 17.2 from OpenGL to Qt. Perhaps that’s the issue?
Has anybody else run into this issue? What fixes it? Or alternatively, if you have a custom HTML report working in 17.2 with the allegro_html_qt variable checked, how is your report formatted?
Here is the displayed text from an example board I made with allegro_html_qt checked. This is exactly what is displayed in the report window; Allegro does not understand this is HTML and should be displayed as such:
<html><b><u>Design name</u> C:/DATA/Projects/Cadence/test/comp_lead_prep/worklib/comp_lead_prep/physical/comp_lead_prep166.brd<br><u>Date</u> Mon Mar 12 16:11:00 2018</b><br><br><table border="1"><caption><b><u>QSC Component Lead Prep Report</u></b></caption><tr><th>Ref Des</th><th>Part Number</th><th>Footprint Name</th><th>Tooling</th><th>Lead Prep Doc</th></tr><tr><td>Q1</td><td>QD-000373-00</td><td>Q_MFN_TO220FLUP150</td><td>B3</td><td>RD-000487-00</td></tr><tr><td>Q3</td><td>QD-000284-00</td><td>Q_MFN_TO247FLUP220</td><td>C</td><td>RD-000488-00</td></tr><tr><td>Q4</td><td>QD-000284-00</td><td>Q_MFN_TO247PRPC</td><td>ND1</td><td>RD-000042-00</td></tr></html>