Three doors around the same batch: bring methods and bottles in, build a spreadsheet that follows the current sample, write Excel, PDF, and method packages out.

Import, report, and export Methods and samples come in from vendor files or .qtm. Reports use Q. functions. Export writes Excel, PDF, and method packages. What you can import, report, and export Three doors around the same batch: bring methods and bottles in, build a spreadsheet report, write files out. Import Method -> Load / Import .qtm package (replace or append as AcqKey) MassHunter method MassHunter data method SCIEX WIFF method Batch -> Add samples .D folders, WIFF, sequence metadata from the file Reports View -> Report Designer workbook follows current sample and current compound Q.Sample Q.Compound Q.KeyCompound Q.SmpKeys Q.Level Q.VCalibration Q.VSample Q.Batch HideIf / ShowIf sheets Export Method -> Save Method .qtm + responses + optional report workbooks Report export Excel + PDF per sample or parallel batch export plots baked to pictures Grids: copy / image Append several vendor methods into one Quanto method: each import becomes an AcqKey. That is how multi-instrument Key Review starts. Define export chooses which sheets go to the batch pack and which go to each sample file, plus an optional folder and post-export command. Q.KeyCompound reads the Key Review winner for a SmpKey  the same cell the green outline marks in Key Review. A report always needs a current sample. Select one before exporting a single-sample workbook.
Import, reports, and export panels

Import

Methods

Method → Load / Import is one dialog.

Source What you get
.qtm Full Quanto method: analytes, quants, doses, ISTD links, sample types, stored calibration responses, optional report workbooks
MassHunter method Compounds, ISTD flags, transitions, expected RT
MassHunter data method Method inferred from a .D data folder
ChemStation method Compounds from .M / qdb.mth
SCIEX WIFF method MRM compounds from the WIFF

Replace swaps the current method (sample results are cleared). Append adds the import under a new AcqKey and keeps existing analytes. That is the start of Key Review across instruments.

You can append only selected AcqKey + name keys when the dialog offers a candidate list.

Samples

Batch → Add samples

The data provider fills name, acquired time, instrument, position, dilution when the file has them. Sample types and dose names are then matched from the method. Override on the Samples grid when the file label is wrong.

What import does not invent

Vendor methods do not set Quanto Calibration mode. New .qtm packages default to Initial calibration unless you change it. ISTD links are imported when the vendor method has them; ESTD vs ISTD is still a Quant setting you can edit.

Reports

View → Report opens the workbook for the current method. The live sheet follows current sample and current compound (the same selection other views publish).

What a report can show

Need Function / source
Batch header Q.Batch("Name"), method, counts, last saved
This bottle Q.Sample("SampleName"), Type, Dil, SmpKey, AcqKey, acquired
This analyte in this bottle Q.Compound("Result.FinalConcentration"), flags, RT, ISTD
Winner across injections Q.KeyCompound(..., Q.SmpKeys(), Q.CurrentCompound)
All keys in batch order Q.SmpKeys()
Curve levels Q.Level, Q.Levels, Q.AllLevels
Lists from the method Q.Analytes, Q.Doses, Q.AcqKeys, Q.SampleTypes, Q.SumGroups
Chromatogram / curve picture Q.VSample, Q.VCompound, Q.VCalibration, Q.VQualifier
Show or hide a block HideIfError, HideIfBlank, HideIfFalse, ShowIfTrue

Names-grid help in the designer documents every Source.Property (Sample, Compound, Result, Analyte, Batch, Level, KeyReview, …).

Designer

Report Designer (stock WPF + Fluent ribbon, not Fast.Wpf) edits the workbook. Define report names the template. Define export picks:

Workbooks can be cached into the .qtm when you save the method, so the next batch opens the same report.

Export

Destination How Contents
Method .qtm Method → Save Method Tables + calibration responses + optional report workbooks
Excel + PDF Report export, current sample Formulas calculated, Q.V* plots baked to pictures
Excel + PDF (many samples) Batch report export Same template, one pair of files per sample, in parallel
Grid Copy / Copy with headers / Copy as image Whatever is selected, including Key Review super-cells

A single-sample export needs a selected sample. Batch export walks the samples you include.

Plots are converted to embedded pictures so the .xlsx opens without Quanto. The live report is not modified.

Typical path

  1. Import or append methods (analysis setup).
  2. Add samples, Analyze, review curves and Key Review.
  3. Open Report, bind Q.KeyCompound for the official numbers.
  4. Define export sheets. Export the batch.
  5. Save Method if the curve (and the report) should travel to the next batch.