LGC HTML Report Generator

The LGC report generator is an interactive extension to Survey Pad (SP), a well-established software within the CERN BE-GM group. SP primarily functions as a visualization tool utilized by surveyors for visualizations of formatted text results of surveying-related calculations. It enables features like inter-file hyperlinks, auto file formatting, and coloring or inspecting a file’s structure. As SP serves for visualizations, the mentioned computations are performed by SP computing plugins such as LGC++ or Chaba. LGC is the basic building block for the LGC HTML report generator developed during this project.
The results from LGC used to be produced as a text file formatted by SP. Still, they didn’t allow for much interactivity for users, such as sorting or interactive plots (histograms were displayed as text, too). The lack of interactivity served as the primary motivation behind this project and remained its central objective. Another objective was to produce a shareable dependency-free formatted results file, as the pure text without SP formatting may often be hard to orient in. An interactive demo can be found here.