Generating Allegro report with data from external file

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Hello Cadence community, 
 When choosing any of the reports in Allegro PCB design -> tools -> quick reports, a separate window pops up with a report table usually containing hotlinks to relevant locations on the board. 
 
 Is there a way to go from an excel spreadsheet into an Allegro Report popup window with location hotlinks? 
 
 Please refer to image below for illustration.

P.S I have some Skill programming experience so am also open to coding suggestions. 
 
 Thanks, 
 David Nguyen

oldmouldy · Accepted Answer

There is nothing "magic" about this. The PCB Editor File Viewer, File>File Viewer, will read "any" text file and turn "any" entries with a format of ( ), like " (10.0 10.0) ", into links to navigate the board. The numbers are taken as database units. The default type for the File Viewer is LOG files but TXT / ALL files can be selected.

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