add columns to table

[Jim West]

I want to programatically fill a table.  I wrote attached script in feb and it was working.  Now I have messed up something.  It will not add the columns.

help

Jim

[Brad_Turpin · Accepted solution]

Hi Jim,

I took a look at your VBScript and was able to reproduce the empty table you described.  After poking around a bit, I noticed that the layout you create programmatically is number-oriented, while the table column variable you use to assign the data channel is the one for name-oriented referencing. All REPORT objects have two sets of channel variables, one set for number-oriented channel referencing (the default in DIAdem 8.1 and prior) and another set for name-oriented channel referencing (the default since 9.0).

When I added the following line to force the layout to be name-oriented, your table columns magically appeared:

PicDefByIdent = 1 ' Name-Oriented channel referencing

Brad Turpin

DIAdem Product Support Engineer
National Instruments

[Jim West]

Brad,

Thank you for the advice... you said "I noticed that the layout you create programmatically is number-oriented"

How do I modify script to be name oriented?  (Basically, what should I have done.)

Jim

[Otmar]

Hello Jim,

There is a setting  in the REPORT panel, that is responsible for this.

In REPORT - go to the SETTINGS menu, then LAYOUT SETUP >  LAYOUT PARAMETERS ...

The dialog that shows up has a section called "Channel Reference" - just set the radio button to the selection you prefer.