LabVIEW Idea Exchange

To make your code reusable as subvi's and have less connector space used the cluster is a way to go, but you need to define the types inside your cluster upfront.

If you want to add an other item inside this cluster you have to rewrite all the subvi's this cluster is wired to...... This is at least annoying. (or dull, boring, dreadful, tedious, dreary, tiresome, aggravating, exasperating, irritating)

If you could add new types of variables inside this "Dynamic Cluster Array" on the fly, you can expand the clusters on the fly when needed !

Example of a "Dynamic Cluster Array":

 Look also to the Search 1D node, to see how you can select an array cluster item.

You can read and write the cluster as normal clusters but if you want to read or write a variable that does not exist this variable is added.

Reading and writing this variable will add this variable in all clusters in the array, these variables will get the default value until your software changes this value.

This behavior is the same as structures in Matlab

John

The only method available to assign all the data from one chart to another is to use the History Data property node.  

Without using the property node, all you get is the last value of the chart.   

Take for example this use case:

   I have several functional globals holding unique chart data.  Using one Front Panel chart on the main VI, i swap whichever operations data i'd like to see in and out of that chart.  Currently, i have to fumble around with searching for the correct reference number of the Func Global chart and use a property node to do my data assignment.  Totally inefficient! 

Adding the ability to select assignment of the entire history to the "Data Operations" context menu, and making the chart polymorphic to recognize the input difference would be incredibly helpful.