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      <div class="title_topic3" id="xps10_pagetitle">Quality Dashboard Report Generator Overview</div>
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               <p class="para_td">Overview</p>
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      </table><br><p class="para_topic">The QDASH utility lets you create reports from Check-Mate log files or report data. It searches directories you specify for files generated when running Check-Mate in NX. QDASH can also interface with Teamcenter Engineering to find and process Check-Mate log files stored there. </p>
      <p class="para_topic">Some advantages of the QDASH utility over the original Check-Mate viewer, include: </p>
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            <p class="para_item">You can interactively design the format of the report you want to create</p>
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            <p class="para_item">The QDASH utility is much faster at performing queries.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">It can create reports including a much larger volume of data.</p>
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      <p class="para_topic">The QDASH utility also contains all the features of the original Check-Mate viewer, including all fixed format reports supported in the original viewer.</p>
      <div class="title_division">Where do I find it?</div>
      <p class="para_division">On Windows: click Start&rarr;All Programs&rarr;NX 5&rarr;NX Tools&rarr;Quality Dashboard.</p>
      <p class="para_division">On UNIX and Linux, execute ugmenu. From the UniProducts Activity Menu Version nn&rarr;Quality Dashboard.</p>
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