Additional NI Software Idea Exchange

For security reasons, many customers using Volume License Manager to administer licenses to client machines do not authorize users to download and install anything from the web. Therefore, if a critical patch is released, the client machines are unable to download this unless it is distributed by the administrator. It would be useful for the VLM administrator to be able to configure the Update Service such that all Users can run the Update Service but the service has been configured to point to an internal network share rather than an internet location outside the firewall. This way, the administrator could make critical updates and patches available for the client machines and the clients can be notified and install them.

Request for evaluation by a user group and update of VeriStand System Explorer user interface.  The System Explorer user interface has changed little in several years - small improvements, such as allowing the user to enter formulas using the PC keyboard rather than the interface within the Calculated Channel Configuration Page would be significant.  As an example, the INERTIA Calculation Custom Device is more user friendly and intuitive.  

Additionally, the ability to better organize Calculated Channels, Alarms, Aliases, User Channels, etc. after creation would be helpful.  For large projects, where we have dozens of variables and calculated channels, it is a significant amount of work to organize after the variables or calculated channels are created.  Creating folders beforehand to help organize is a workaround, but after the fact, using the Cut and Paste functions are clunky - the ability to drag and drop would be preferred.

For many non-trivial system definitions, it is unrealistic to expect users to manually map the 100s or 1000s of required channels so mapping files will be scripted so they can be imported into VeriStand.

When using the Import Mapping dialog, it's hard to tell whether the import process really worked. Each channel shows its status individually but it would be helpful if the dialog reported the results at the bottom such as "256 Connections Made, 512 Skipped (Connection Already Exists), 16 Errors".

If the destination is already mapped it would also be good to check whether it's mapped to the same channel in the file or a different channel entirely as trying to create the same mapping isn't really an issue while trying to map two channels to the same destination very much is.

It would be even more helpful if you could filter these results to only show Errors or Connections Made.

The image above is importing from a file with ~5000 mappings so scrolling through the entire report to see if there were any problems is prone to errors.