Add comment in file's properties with "write to spreadsheet"

[nyc_(is_out_of_here)]

If the OP is talking about modifying/editing his Excel file's Document Properties, it will require ActiveX.  http://www.cpearson.com/excel/docprop.aspx

[Guillaume.O]

In the initial post, I write some information in the header of the text file, into the text file but not
in the metadata. But this is the file for people who are using excel to edit the data.
On the lower part of the screenshot I don't write any comment, I just create a spreadsheet with columns of data.

Into the "file properties" or metadata there is also a part named "comment" just after the date, size, author...

[RavensFan]

You can't.

As you said, you want to create text files, and text files don't have these properties.

Excel files have these properties, but they are built into the binary format of .xls files.  .xls files are NOT text files.

[Guillaume.O]

uhmm, that is bad. There is just one thing that I don't understand. In the Windows explorer with the right-click I can access to the properties of the text file and write some information in the comment text field. So why not in Labview ?

[Norbert_B]

Hm, i think i now understand.

There is no solution available for LV right away. In fact, it seems to be quite ugly to get a solution.

The reason as far as i can see is that this is heavily depending on the used OS. So it could be possible that it works with Win XP, but not in Win 7....

Platform dependencies is the major reason for LV not having such features....

Norbert 

[StefanR]

Hi Guillaume,

the alternative could be LVM. It's nothing we suggest for a general purpose use-case but in your case it could help.

LVM allows to add some meta data on the top of the CSV file

[Guillaume.O]

@Norbert: That's true, I tried on my laptop and the comment field does not exist. It's only with XP files properties unfortunately. @Stefan.R: I tried with LVM but it create a csv file with too many information. I just need the values, if there is some text the program won't to run the file.