DAQmx channel from string

[Artemiss]

I am attempting to abstract from the user the internal routing of counters in my DAQ tasks.  So, on the front panel I have a device name control to which I want to add the specific channels to in my code.  The only way I can think to do this is to cast the device name to a string and concatenate the channel to it (e.g. "Ctr0InternalOutput"), but how can I get from this string to a single channel that can be used as the source for a DAQmx timing vi?  Unflatten channel doesn't seem to work as this just ouputs a string and I need an NI terminal type.

Cheers

[TroyK · Accepted solution]

As far as I know you can treat it as a string. Just concatenate. (Note the forward slash)

If you really want it to be the right type (rather than let LabVIEW typecast it for you) you could insert a typecast.