Chart plot order: Ascending / Descending ?

[Gustep12]

I have a fixed length array of plots (machine raw data) plust a variable length array of plots (user-determined calculations) that I want to display on the same chart.

Naturally, I put the fixed length array first (raw data plots), then append the variable length array (calculations), so that I have a fixed offset in the array. Anything before this offset is raw data. Anything after that offset are calculations.

This is useful for using the "plot visible" property node to hide/reveal some of the user-defined calculations.

The problem is that when I display the calculations together with the raw data, the calculated plots are mostly hidden:

Current LabView Plot layering: Descending
Plot 0 = topmost layer (raw data, always visible)
Plot 1 = next layer (raw data, mostly visible)
....
Plot 30 = second lowest layer (calculation, very difficult to see) <== this is the problem
Plot 31 = bottom layer (calculation, almost impossible to see ) <== this is the problem

I would like to have a property node "Plot Order: Ascending / Descending" on my chart so that I can reverse the layering of the plots as follows:

Proposed optional Plot layering: Ascending
Plot 31 = topmost layer (calculation, always visible) <== this would be better
Plot 30 = next layer (calculation, mostly visible) <== this would be better
....
Plot 1 = second lowest layer (raw data, very difficult to see)
Plot 0 = bottom layer (raw data, almost impossible to see)

In summary, my suggestion is for LabView to add a chart property node "Plot Order" which can be set to "Ascending" or "Descending".

[RavensFan]

Not quite a duplicate of this idea.

New plots should be drawn on top of older ones in a XY-Graph

That idea would more generally fix the problems described in your idea.

[X.]

More importantly, first make a search for the concept you are suggesting. Chances are, it has been proposed before. In principle, when you started typing your idea title, you got suggestions from the forum's search engine. In your case, the term "chart" throws off the search engine, which misses the important concept, which is " plot order". Try this and you will find plenty of duplicate or similar ideas.

The more ideas are repeated and kudos wasted on duplicates which are later abandonned, the less impact the core suggestion has. And we end up with NI working on subdiagram or wire labels, simplified Boolean constants or such, when aggravating shortcomings are left unsolved for decades. This is one.

[Darren]

Any idea that has not received any kudos within a year after posting will be automatically declined.