text channel value

[nickstorton]

Hi All,

I'm trying to develop a report master layout where the report title has a fixed portion of text followed by a dynamic portion of text. What I'm trying to do is import the dynamic bit from a text channel in the data portal. To test this I've created a group and in this group I've created a text channel but I cannot see where or how to assign a value to this text channel. This is so frustrating because I'm sure this is a really easy thing to do.

Thanks,

Nick

[Brad_Turpin]

Hi Nick,

For pure testing purposes, please just use a Group text property and avoid the Channel value question for now.  How will this information show up in DIAdem when you have your final application working?

Brad Turpin

DIAdem Product Support Engineer

National Instruments

[nickstorton]

Thanks for your reply Brad I'll try that. Basically we get sent a partially complete report from our customer when we get a return so a number of fields in the report are already completed such as document number, issue level etc. We then have to perform the failure analysis and currently we manually add pages to the report with our test data. I'm trying to automate this process using DIAdem and have replicated the report format layout and now just need to get the information from the existing report into the Failure analysis pages so that the customer still sees the same report they always have but we become much more efficient.

Thanks again,

Nick

[Brad_Turpin]

Hi Nick,

It sounds like your'e going to want to use the Report object, especially Report.AppendLayout().  You should also try right-clicking on the REPORT object you want to tweak (graph, textbox, whatever) and selecting "Copy as Script", then go to the SCRIPT panel and right-click and choose "Paste".

Brad Turpin

DIAdem Product Support Engineer

National Instruments