How do I turn on Labels in Block Diagram but not on Front Panel?

[dbaechtel]

This question may have been asked before, but the Forum Search did not find it.

In LabVIEW 2010, I have 16 String Indicators on the Front Panel. On the Front Panel I can not have the Label for each Visible, so I turned it off. But in the Block Diagram I need to distinguqish one from the other, so I need to make the Label (Name) visible.

In the Block Diagram, if I select the Sting Indicators all together and go to Properties and make the Label visible, it makes the Labels visible on the Front Panel but not visible in the Block Diagram. What good is that?

How do I make the Lables (name) of the String Indicators visible in the Block Diagram but not visible on the Front Panel?

[Dennis_Knutson]

I don't think the properties refer to the block diagram objects. None of the options (with the exception of Label>Visible) can even be applied to the block diagram.

Typically, you would create front panel controls/indicators with labels. This will create block diagram objects with labels. You could then select the front panel objects and select properties to turn off labels. This will not affect the block diagram labels.

[GregFreeman]

I second what dennis said. Also, you have the ability to choose a "caption" and a "label". Label shows up on the block diagram, caption does not which gives you some more versatility especially with controls that have long names.

[dbaechtel]

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@Dennis Knutson wrote:

I don't think the properties refer to the block diagram objects. None of the options (with the exception of Label>Visible) can even be applied to the block diagram.

Typically, you would create front panel controls/indicators with labels. This will create block diagram objects with labels. You could then select the front panel objects and select properties to turn off labels. This will not affect the block diagram labels.

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All of the String Indicators do have Labels. If I go to the front panel and make the Labels visible, they appear on the Front Panel but not in the Block Diagram.

How do I get the Labels to show in the Block Diagram?

[Ben]

If you are

selecting multiple object then pop-up >>> properties and change the setting in that dialog, it will only affect the FP object.

to show them in the diagram, you have to pop-up on each and select visable item label.

Ben 

[RavensFan · Accepted solution]

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@dbaechtel wrote:

This question may have been asked before, but the Forum Search did not find it.

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Don't you remember already asking this question and getting help in this thread?

Did you try the things I said in that thread?  How did they not work?

Right click on the BD terminal and go to Visible > Labels.

It will probably make the FP control show its label as well.  So then go to the FP control, right click and go to Visible > labels and uncheck it.

The BD terminal will have a label, and the FP control will not.