Append list to report example is missing

[alexela]

Hello, Im trying to understand from time to time how EACH vi works.

Got to "append list to report", dug a lot, cannot find any working example or good explanation (labview documentation is really bad)

Example attached. 

I'm getting 41000 error on this node.

Please advice what I'm doing wrong. 

Thanks

[altenbach]

I thought appending a list to a report is more for "Word" reports, not "Excel". (If you chose a word report, it works just fine)

Is is also a really (really!!!) bad idea to write to the root folder (C:\raw results.pdf). Windows wont allow that.

[alexela]

You right.

After a lot of tries I found that it only work with word and html. 

They simply could write it somewhere (

About file saving, I just deleted the full path for the example. Indeed a bad idea to save there. Not doing that )

Thanks

[Bob_Schor]

@Altenbach is almost certainly correct -- you have found a "Bug in the Documentation".

This functionality is designed for "Text" reports that can be generated to be read by Humans (and not processed by Spreadsheets such as Excel).  Here a "list" means "a vertically-arranged column of text, either sorted or unsorted, with a possible indicator such as a Bullet symbol or a numeric entry that indicates the sequential serial order ("1, 2, 3" or "a, b, c")".

The Error Message is "NI-Reports: (Hex 0xA028) You attempted to use a function that has no effect with the current report type."  This information belongs in the Help file for this function.  I'm sure that @Altenbach will bring this to NI's attention.

Bob Schor

[JÞB]

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@Bob_Schor wrote:

@Altenbach is almost certainly correct -- you have found a "Bug in the Documentation".

This functionality is designed for "Text" reports that can be generated to be read by Humans (and not processed by Spreadsheets such as Excel).  Here a "list" means "a vertically-arranged column of text, either sorted or unsorted, with a possible indicator such as a Bullet symbol or a numeric entry that indicates the sequential serial order ("1, 2, 3" or "a, b, c")".

The Error Message is "NI-Reports: (Hex 0xA028) You attempted to use a function that has no effect with the current report type."  This information belongs in the Help file for this function.  I'm sure that @Altenbach will bring this to NI's attention.

Bob Schor

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Of course, there is always the "Submit Feedback" button in the help file.   PRESS IT!  NI actually put it there for you to use.