Unusual behaviour in model outputs recorded by SystemTest - a value for every outport, on every outport.

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I have a model in SystemTest with a number of inports and outports.
With each timestep, the values for all the inputs are read in from an Excel spreadsheet.
Normally in my experience, for every timestep, one value for every outport is recorded.
What I am finding for a particular SystemTest is that many values are recorded for every outport, for every timestep. The number of values appears to correspond to the number of outports, so that if there is 5 outports, on every timestep all 5 outports have a 1x5 double each recorded as the result.
It's a discrete fixed step solver of sample time 0.01 - this corresponds to the size of each timestep in the spreadsheet of data.
Any ideas as to how to sort this or what might be causing the behaviour? Many thanks
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Bart Addis
Bart Addis on 13 Sep 2011
Does the model behave this way without SystemTest? In other words, if you connect a scope to the output signals, what do you see?

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Fangjun Jiang
Fangjun Jiang on 8 Sep 2011
It looks like the signal associated with each of your Outport has become a vector signal. Click menu Format->Port/Signal Displays->Signal Dimensions and Wide Nonscalar lines to check it out. It is probably inherited from the Inport, which means the data inport from the Excel spreadsheet is not in the right format.
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James
James on 14 Sep 2011
There could be something in this actually. Eventually I deleted all inports and outports, and redid them. This fixed it.
I can only assume the first outport was connected when I was still configuring inputs and it inherited some settings, that somehow were copied to every other outport when I cloned the outport for the other signals. Why it didn't update to what it should inherit, I don't know, but it's the best that I can understand.
Fangjun Jiang
Fangjun Jiang on 14 Sep 2011
That is a good point. In our organization, we recommended to drag and drop every block from the library, not to duplicate from the model, unless you are 100% sure that is what you want. There are so many parameters now for every block. You don't know what is different from the default setting.

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