I want to read my NIDAQ config file with excel

[bdougr]

I ran into a problem yesterday after changing a scale for eight of my 250 SCXI channels.
Labview DSC gives me the dreaded "Your OPC server does not support..." which usually happens when you have duplicate entries in MAX.
Well the file before the scale change worked until I changed it, going back did not help....

anyway I found the two tags giving me the problem but I can not find duplicates.

Is there a way to convert the nidaq config file to a .csv file so I can read it into excel?


For large channel count apps it would be great if MAX allowed you to show IO by board. (now currently just alphabetical)

[Deborah]

From your post I am guessing you are using Traditional DAQ. There is not a way to convert the nidaq config file to a .csv file. However there are VIs for reading info from the configuration file. You could use these VIs to get the info and show it in a LV table/listbox or to create your own tab deliminated file to load into Excel. These VIs are "Get DAQ Channel Names.vi" and "Get Scale Infomation.vi". They are located in the Traditional DAQ palette. If you'd like a VI to help you get started, confirm with me that you are using Traditional DAQ and I'll throw one together for you.

Deborah

[bdougr]

Deborah,

Thanks, I am indeed using traditional (for DSC)

I found the VIs. Thanks