The RULA Report Settings page is your central configuration hub for all RULA assessments in Motionprint Ergo. Settings you choose here become persistent defaults applied to every new assessment — whether you need to control automatic detection, customize your report layout, or control export filenames. Changes take effect the next time you open or run an assessment.
1 Overview
The settings page is accessed via Sidebar → Settings → Reports tab. At the top of the first card a report-type dropdown lets you select which report methodology to configure — select RULA here. Switching with unsaved changes triggers a confirmation dialog. All configuration options are displayed as a stacked set of modular cards.
At the bottom of the card stack, an action bar provides a single Save and apply button. Clicking it saves your changes to preferences; the page stays open and the button becomes disabled until you make further changes. There is no dedicated Discard button — if you navigate away with unsaved changes, a confirmation dialog appears asking whether you want to leave; choosing "Yes" discards the changes implicitly.
The settings are organized into three functional modules, each addressing a specific aspect of how RULA assessments are performed, displayed, and exported. Each module contains toggles, dropdown selectors, text inputs, or custom lists depending on the type of setting.
All settings apply to every RULA assessment created after you save them. They are stored locally on your system and persist across sessions. If you need different settings for a specific assessment, you can adjust them within that assessment before running the analysis — the global defaults do not lock you in.
Unlike the lifting reports, RULA has no reference mass or analysis mode to configure — its scoring bands come from the published method and are not user-adjustable. Fields such as gender, age and weight are controlled globally in Sidebar → Settings → Privacy rather than per report type. See Privacy Settings.
2 Analysis & Scoring
The Analysis & Scoring module determines what is detected automatically, whether an averaged result is produced, and which optional tabs are available.
| Setting | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Auto-generated critical moments | On | Toggle automatic detection of peak moment and sustained risk periods in the Analysis tab. Disable if you prefer to mark critical moments manually. |
| Generate averaged overview | Off | Toggle to add an averaged result across posture tasks to the score overview and export files. Use only when all posture tasks represent the same repeated posture. |
| Findings enabled | On | Toggle whether the Findings tab appears in the report. When disabled, the tab is hidden entirely. |
| Findings title | "Findings" | Text input to rename the Findings tab. The custom title appears in the report tab bar and in exported files. The 50-character limit is enforced by the input field. |
| Findings sections | 5 defaults | Drag-and-drop list of section blocks within the Findings tab. Add, rename, reorder, or delete sections. A Reset to defaults button restores the standard five sections. |
Averaged overview explained
Off is the recommended default for most assessments. Each posture task is scored independently and reported on its own, which is what you want whenever the tasks describe different working postures — a task scoring 3 and a task scoring 7 are two separate findings, and the 7 is the one that needs attention.
On adds an Average (all tasks) entry to the posture task selector, showing a single averaged result alongside the individual ones. Choose this when your recording captures one repetitive operation split into several cycles, where the average is a fair summary of a consistent posture.
Averaging across genuinely different postures produces a number that describes none of them. Before enabling this, check that every posture task in the assessment represents the same repeated posture — otherwise leave it off and read the tasks separately.
Findings tab configuration
The Findings tab in the report (if enabled) is a free-form documentation area. You can customize it from this module:
- Enable/Disable — toggle whether the Findings tab appears in the report at all.
- Tab title — text input to rename the tab. Default is "Findings".
- Sections list — add, rename, reorder (drag-and-drop), or delete individual section blocks within the Findings tab. Each section has a title and a multi-line text area for notes.
- Reset to defaults — button to restore the standard section structure: Current Situation, Observations, Risk Assessment, Recommendations, and Conclusion.
3 Viewport
The Viewport module sets the default 3D viewer layout and camera angle for both the input page and the In-depth analysis tab on the results page, ensuring consistent visualization across your assessments. The same two settings apply to both pages:
| Setting | Options | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Layout | Single view, Two horizontal, Two vertical, Four views | Controls how many viewports are shown. Single view shows one full-width viewport. Two horizontal shows two viewports side by side. Two vertical stacks them. Four views shows a 2×2 grid. |
| Camera view | Perspective, Front, Back, Left, Right, Top | Sets the default camera angle. Perspective is a realistic angled view. The others are orthogonal views useful for checking posture alignment from a specific direction. When a multi-viewport layout is selected, each viewport has its own camera view setting. |
The settings here establish defaults when you first open an assessment or the Analysis tab. Once inside a report, you can always change the layout and camera view interactively, or orbit freely with your mouse. The global settings do not lock the interface.
4 Export
The Export module controls the naming conventions for PDF and Excel files when you export a completed RULA assessment report, and what those files contain.
Filename templates
PDF and Excel exports each have their own filename template, both defaulting to:
{workstation}_{current_date}_{report_type}
The two templates are independent — you can customize them separately. The file extension (.pdf, .xlsx) is appended automatically. For a full overview of available variables, validation rules, fallback behaviour, and example templates, see Exporting Reports (PDF & Excel).
A separate Project Save template controls the default title pre-filled when saving an assessment to the Projects Database. It uses the same variable syntax. See Projects Database — Project title naming template for details.
Export settings
| Setting | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Use company branding | Off | Toggle to include your company logo and brand colour in exported PDF and Excel reports — on the cover page, section headers, and footer. When disabled, exports display "Motionprint" as the default footer company name. |
| Export only average posture task | Off | Toggle to export only the averaged result rather than every individual posture task. Requires Generate averaged overview to be enabled first — without an average to export, the option has nothing to act on and stays unavailable. |
The company name, logo, and brand colours are configured in Sidebar → Settings → General, not here. Set them there once and they apply to all branded exports across all report types. See Customization & Branding for a full walkthrough.
How settings affect reopened projects
Reopening a saved project does not apply your current settings to it. The project opens exactly as it was saved, and is shown and exported that way.
If your global settings have changed since the project was saved, a banner appears at the top of the report to say so. Expanding Show details lists what changed, split into two groups:
- Can be applied to this project — presentation and display changes, such as the Findings configuration and its sections, company branding, and which privacy fields are shown. These only affect how the finished report is presented, so the project can take them on without recalculating anything. To apply them, press Save and choose Apply changes — then Save to update this project, or Save as New to leave the original as saved and store a second copy.
- Fixed for this report — changes that affect how scores are calculated. A finished assessment is a record of how it was computed, so it keeps the settings it was created with and its scores stay comparable over time. These are listed for information only; to use the new settings, create a new report.
RULA has nothing in the second group. None of its settings change how scores are calculated, so every difference a saved RULA project can report is one you are free to apply.
Your company name, logo and brand colour are the exception to all of this: they always follow your current settings rather than the saved ones, so rebranding does not require re-saving old projects. See Projects Database for the full overview.