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Ryan_S

NI VeriStand: Auto Expand System Explorer Tree to First Set of Branches

Status: New Submitted by Active Participant on 01-31-2014 05:50 PM 2 Comment

When configuring a system definition file in VeriStand, you can spend a lot of time expanding all of the tree items even if there's only one other item under it. I think it would be nice if the tree auto expanded down to the first set of user-added branches. For example, say I have a simple System Definition as shown below:

 

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If I want to get down to the CAN port I've added, I need to expand Controller, Hardware, Chassis, NI-XNET, and CAN. It would be nice if, assuming the only hardware I've added is the CAN Port, that when I expand Hardware it automatically expands all the way down to CAN 1 since it's the first node I've added. Obviously if I'd also added a DAQ card I'd be ok with it only expanding down to under chassis. Alternatively, or in addition, a button that completely expands the currently highlighted section would be nice.

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davidcl11616

Measurement & Automation Explorer on Touchscreen Interface

Status: New Submitted by Member on 03-02-2018 07:23 AM Comment

Increase the size of the "handles" used to resize the display panes in MAX so that it can be done on a touchscreen interface. It is impossible to "grab" the border between two panes on the MAX window using touch to expand a pane. It would also be very nice if MAX remembered its window/panes positions between sessions.

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FTI_Newton

MAX: Create Global Virtual Channels with Internal Physical channels

Status: New Submitted by Member on 08-21-2013 07:45 AM Comment

Title pretty much says it all. I can create them programmatically,why not with a configuration?

 

Workaround: create the channel programmatically and save it to the configuration.Very inconvenient. 

 

<1% Use case? Perhaps. 

 

I can display it in MAX and it shows the internal channel. It's not like it's hidden from anyone. Being able to select internal channels from a dropdown, just like a Channel Control in LabVIEW, would be entirely logical and consistent. Default behaviour could be external channels, with filter checkboxes just like the aforementioned control.

 

 

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yamadj

Add a tip strip to the Path and Expression indicators in the Model's Parameter Specification page

Status: New Submitted by Active Participant on 11-29-2017 09:05 AM Comment

Currently when we try to look into the Model's Parameters we don't really know the difference between he Path and Expression indicators. A tip strip would be helpful in figuring out the correct paths. 

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h_yong

Make the stimulus profile message box prompt actually return the text string for programmatic use

Status: New Submitted by Active Participant on 05-08-2013 05:01 PM Comment

Currently the stimulus profile message box prompt allows user text input, but the user text isn't usable anywhere. I'd like to the text to be returned for use in the profiles/sequences. Thank you.

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h_yong

Sequences return arrays

Status: New Submitted by Active Participant on 04-27-2013 02:24 AM Comment

Because we use sequences as function calls, it'd be great if they could return multiple variables or return arrays.

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streetman

Veristand Stimulus Editor:Global or Array Variable

Status: New Submitted by Member on 04-26-2013 02:22 PM Comment

I have hundreds of signals and I want to be able to set a values to them all at once without listing each one individually in every sequence. How do I write to many signals at once?  Is there away to assign all the signals to one variable or array of some type and just write to that variable?  I did not see such mechanism and NI support says nothing similar exists.  Maybe this should be considered.

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h_yong

Line reference or debugger for stimulus profiles and real time sequences

Status: New Submitted by Active Participant on 03-13-2013 12:40 AM Comment

I'd like to see a system channel that can point to the line number of the real time sequence being run. This would add additional debugging capability. Something similar was available in VeriStand 2009 where a "GENxyz Current Step" would indicate what step the profile was on. Thank you.

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Gertz

Improve the camera management in MAX

Status: New Submitted by Member on 02-12-2013 03:44 AM Comment

If you add a NI camera to the computer, Max will recognize that.

The camera is added as Cam0.

In the back a file gets created which includes the Type, Name, Serial number,… of the camera.

If the camera gets broken and you put in a new one it gets added as Cam1. ?!?

If you only have one Camera it will be easy to scan pragmatically and

use the one that you find. But if you have several cameras you get a problem.

 

For Example:

 

Cam0

Cam1

Cam2

Cam3

 

You want to change camera 1 and put it out. Now you put the new one in.

Max creates Cam4 because Cam1 is reserved for the other one.

It is not possible to delete Cam1. Only if you go to the specific folder and

Delete the special .iid file the port is no longer reserved.

 

Please implement the management of this directly in Max!

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S.Kakibe

"HIL Test Pattern Editor" like "Signal Builder" in Simulink

Status: New Submitted by Active Participant on 01-31-2013 08:33 AM Comment

When I talk with customers who wants to create stimulus test pattern signals, many customers say "I want to create test pattern signals by similar meathods to Signal Builder in Simulink. In "Signal Builder", user can change value by mouse action, and user seems to like that way. (I think Signal Builder in Simulink is not so intuitive and flexible) And user wants to create multiple signals in stacking graph because it is easy to compare each signal timing.

 

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S.Kakibe

Replace model file to keep mapping information

Status: New Submitted by Active Participant on 01-10-2013 08:45 AM Comment

Hello,

 

Sometimes, customer want to change current model file with another model file. Once the model file is deleted on system definition, mapping infomation related to deleted model also disappear. To workaround this, we have to export map info, then delete mdl file and add new model, and then import map info...but this process sucks.

 

To save our time, I want to suggest "replace" function as below. When replace the model files, map info for the same inport/outport are kept.

 

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Saku

 

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MHn

fast check for installed drivers with System Configuration API

Status: New Submitted by Member on 09-13-2017 03:20 AM Comment

The system configuration API allows a fast check for available hardware using the expert strings as an input for the detect hardware vi.

It would be nice to have a similar option to check if a specific software module or driver is installed.

At the moment only the whole list can be obtained, which takes a very long time to query.

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MHn

Add web-based configuration for Volume License Manager

Status: New Submitted by Member on 09-13-2017 02:31 AM Comment

It makes sense to run the Volume License Manager on a server-based environment.

Typically these environments are managed by the IT departments with restricted access to users.

Managing licenses like it needs to be done with the Volume License Manager is sometimes the responsibility of key-users outside of the IT-department.

With the Volume License Manager have to be operated as an application on the server, this often makes it difficult to get the necessary access rights (remote desktop...) granted from the IT department.

It would be much easier to do the license management via a web based interface provided by the Volume License Management Service.

 

see also: https://forums.ni.com/t5/Additional-NI-Software-Idea/Remote-Management-of-the-National-Instruments-Volume-License/idi-p/3108997

 

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pacome

Default language

Status: New Submitted by Member on 11-26-2012 07:28 AM 1 Comment

The error messages and the texts in MAX are displayed in the current user language. This is based on the selected user keyboard language. This is very anoying for me because I'm working in Switzerland. 

 

We use the English version of LabVIEW to develop our software and, depending on the users, we get messages in german, in french or in english.

 

I would appreciate to be able to really choose the language I will use.

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joshe

Automatically break about large logging files

Status: New Submitted by Active Participant on 11-08-2012 01:04 PM 2 Comment

Way back when VeriStand was first introduced recorded files could automatically be broken apart when they reached a set size.  This feature went away and I would like it back.  I am running test that will last days at 10Hz or faster, so large files are generated.  This really bogs down DIAdem when the data is analysed.  I would like to be able to set the logging file size max  (i.e. 50 Meg) and when the file hits that size a new file with an incremented name (i.e. TestFile_1) is created and data is now logged to it untill it reaches the set size limit.  This not only creates smaller files that can analysed, it lets the data be looked at sooner in the test cycle.

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FTI_Newton

XNET Sessions in MAX

Status: New Submitted by Member on 07-26-2017 09:24 PM Comment

Suggestion:
Define and store XNET sessions within MAX rather than (or perhaps in addition to) a labview project .
Data Neighbourhood seems like a logical place.
This would expand the scope of a session to a host machine from a project. Making executables to reference a predefined session would be simple and flexible.


The ability to create/import CAN messages is already there. Other integrations of CAN/XNET into MAX would be welcome, E.g., launch the database editor from the Tools menu.




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Kira_T

TWAIN Protocol Support

Status: New Submitted by Member on 04-02-2012 02:10 PM 2 Comment
Hi,

I suggest including TWAIN protocol support in the IMAQ Vision drivers.  

Regards,
Kira T
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S.Kakibe

VeriStand .mat file support

Status: New Submitted by Active Participant on 02-13-2012 02:22 AM Comment

Hello,

 

Matlab/Simulink is used for ECU development process, where .mat file seems to be used as test signal pattern definition. NI products is used for ECU verification process, but the same .mat file could not be used by VeriStand. If VeriStand support .mat file, that would help customers save their time. So I hope: 1.Stimulus Profile can read not only .csv file also .mat file  2. custom device supports .mat file for signal play back.

 

regards,

 

Saku

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JÞB

Project and Workspace Context in MAX

Status: New Submitted by Knight of NI on 01-25-2012 12:07 PM 1 Comment

See Also

Simulated Devices in LabVIEW projects

Simulated Devices in TestStand Workspaces

 

Link to those ideas in next post.

 

For integration and station troubleshooting the Sessions, Aliases, Tasks et al would be organized by Project, Application or deployment in MAX and fault identification has all the "tools" any repair tech could want to isolate a failure.

 

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ChrisJJ

Please update Vision Acquisition Software to be compatible with Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4

Status: New Submitted by Member on 10-19-2011 06:18 AM Comment

Partial workaround: Copy VAS Sept 2011 (compatible with VS 2005 and 2008) Vision assemblies to VS 2010 project. I know no way of getting VAS Vision Help viewable in VS2010.

 

Note: ignore the MAX Idea Label on this post - I added this just to get the forum to accept the post.

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