The current way to bind many shared variables to an OPC client, is through browsing a tree and selecting.
This is very time consuming when you have hundrends or thousands of tags to bind. Specialy if the all the tags are not in the same path.
A better way, is to bind the variables, by simple text.
Example: We will insert the following text
A1M01Z1:value
A2M01Z1:value
A3M01Z1:value
and LabVIEW will automatically create 3 variables, bounding to those addresses (with the same name, prefered). Many OPC Servers supports this type of address.
Note that the true path of A1M01Z1 could be something very big, like:
My Computer\OPC ABB.lvlib\_OPC1\[Control Structure]\Root\NETWORK 1\Nodecm3\Extended Process Objects\MB300 AI\A1M01Z1\VALUE
This way you can add thousands of items in minutes. It is quite easy for the R&D team to implement and will help many professional engineers.
Most probably, this idea will not accept many kudos, but i think R&D must consider to implement this.
(this was discussed with NI technical suport, Reference#3279019)
Thank you all, for reading
