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Description of the Tag names of project Item

Hello community,

 

The following method (ProjectItem-getTagNames), gives a list tag names. Then I can use for exemple to read or set alias.value for the IP Adress.

 

https://www.ni.com/docs/en-US/bundle/labview/page/lvprop/projectitem_get_tag_names.html

 

But for most of the tag name in the list i don't know what they do. I am not able to find a description either. 

 

Please, do you know where I can have the description of each tag ? Why isn't easy to find in the help context. 

 

Thanking you in advance

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A lvproj file is actually stored as XML.  Open the project file with an XML Editor to prove that to yourself.

 

The Tag Names are exactly that, the Names of the XML Tags in the file.

 

There are very few good reasons for writing to the tag values outside of the LabVIEW IDE.   But, you can if, for instance, you want to create a new Tool or Framework hook that you want to use for limited scope and would not otherwise be useful outside your toolkit.

 

It's not really a secret that is intentionally left out of the Help file but, more of a problem that the list of possible TAG Names is not limited.   And really, the Project Explorer would almost always be the safest means to deal with the lvproj file contents.


"Should be" isn't "Is" -Jay
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