Create a "Recently Used" Palette

[blawson]

There seem to me to be a couple of choke points in right-click access to VIs and functions.  One is that I frequently need to use the same VI's repeatedly.  Another is that the quite useful "insert" and "replace" context items only offer a few first-tier options: one or two related palettes, or all palettes.  Try to insert a few datalog functions for example, and you have to navigate down 6 levels for each. It's even worse if you have to use "select a VI..." and browse to it. For the worst cases, insert and replace lose their advantage over copy-paste or quick drop.

 I propose a dynamically generated palette consisting of the last several VIs and functions (even controls) that have been dropped.  This is analogous to recent-commands-list functionalities common in CAD packages.

- As a member of the functions palette, the items in it are at or above the level they are in their normal place in the hierarchy.

- Since it's a palette you could pin it and it would be handy for dropping the same node on two different block diagrams

[RTSLVU]

This is a great idea! I find customizing pallets to be frustrating at best and never have figured out how to add to the "favorites" pallets or use the "quick drop".

[cwolfskill]

I especially think that this idea would be useful if the Recently Used palette also contained VIs that you browsed for (that are not in your palettes).  I often find myself in the situation where I want replace multiple instances of a subVI with the v2 version that I have created and saved.  The <Ctrl> + drag method won't work, because I want to replace existing ones to preserve my wiring, so I have to right-click>Replace>Browse>and then find the VI in the folder.  It would be much easier if I could just select it from the Recently Used Palette to replace.

[RDR]

It might be helpful to provide a palette option to sort palette categories dynamically based upon how often you use them and offer the option to pin certain palettes at the top of the list...Like a Windows 7 start menu for palette categories or subpalettes (not individual functions) sorted by how often a palette is used...

[JÞB]

"...Like a Windows 7 start menu for palette "

NO! Next thing you know I'll need to press the   key to get the LabVIEW menu.

[Silver_Shaper]

Good Idea to Implement.

[vt92]

This is a great idea.  LV2013 ??

[ThiCop]

I don't know if you have already seen this: https://decibel.ni.com/content/thread/14998

It partially implements what you are looking for.

[Christina_R]

Thank you for the thoughtful discussion regarding a ‘recently used’ palette. While we understand that this feature could be helpful in certain cases, we believe that a palette with constantly changing contents might not provide the best user experience. Therefore, we have decided not to implement this idea at this time. However, please rest assured that we are continuously exploring ways to enhance efficiency for LabVIEW developers.