LabVIEW Idea Exchange

The idea here is to have the option to create not just a constant when connecting to a property node or indicator, but instead to have an option to connect up a bundle by name with the constant connected to it.  This would be invoked by the usual right click menu, but with extra options if a cluster is present.  I'm not exactly sure how to handle the bundle or bundle by name, but as I am partial to the arrange horizontally arangement of a cluster, it might be nice to have the option to have the constant that is created be either horizontal or vertical, via different options in the selection menu.

The idea is to be able to replace wires running across a case structure with terminals that take the connection on the left side and connect it to the right side.  I would think the left side should allow a through wire for reading variables, but the right side should not, as then the jumping structure wouldn't really be needed.  This is something that would be specific then to that case or entry in the structure, and not the structure itself.

Currently the native (by which I mean noncustom) numeric data types for shared variables are pure numbers (i.e., without units).  It is simple enough to add units to, say, a DBL numeric control and define this as a custom type, but the DSC module does not support value-based alarming for custom types.

Since

1) we would like to support value-based alarming AND units

and

2) I suggest this is (or should be) a very common use case

I propose that LabVIEW have numeric types with units as native shared variable data types.

I suggest that using units for engineering applications would be both more convenient and safer. 

I also think this would be quite simple to implement.  The only question is on which unit to do the value-based alarming.  (Likely this would be on the SI unit on the wire.)

I have attached a very simple example that shows the current state of things.

I have done it again!  Every so often I get a VI running just the way I like it, save it (back it up as well), but when I go to use it the next time, all of my carefully chosen control values are gone.   Having seen similar problems on the forum (in both questions and answers), I am not the only one.  There is by default no keyboard shortcut to 'Make current values default', I have changed Ctrl-D (default) to do it so I usually go Ctrl-D Ctrl-S.  (Ctrl-D is set to do something else, I forget what, but I never used that shortcut anyway).  I suggest a modest change to the save dialog to add a little checkbox option (default unchecked) to 'Make current values default'.  A gentle reminder the first time we save a VI.