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Expand cluster indicators and controls to show unbundle and bundle terminals

Status: Declined
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When using clusters, it's normally necessary at some stage to unbundle or bundle. The block diagram could be made cleaner if cluster terminals could be expanded by the user to show bundle and unbundle terminals, basically by incorporating the current 'unbundle' node. The diagram below illustrates this.

 

NI cluster suggestion.JPG

 

Additionally, this makes it much tidier when trying to modify an element in a cluster. In the picture below, the top image shows the current method and the bottom one shows the proposed method:

 

labview sugg mod.JPG

 

It might be that there's already a way to do something like this but if there is I don't know about it!

2 Comments
Mark_Yedinak
Trusted Enthusiast

While this is a novel idea I don't think it would warrant adding it. The vast majority of the code working with clusters will have the /bundleunbundle on the block diagram without the terminal there. This would be fairly complex for NI to do since it would mean they would have to support a special terminal on the block diagram. This would act different from all other terminals.



Mark Yedinak
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JordanG
NI Employee (retired)
Status changed to: Declined
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