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Is there a way to automaticly include a 'template VI description text' when creating a subVI

Hi
all our VI are documentated with a VI description text of the same design. This includes the Company name, the VI author, the date of creation, the date of last change,the status, the input/output panels, the error handling and so on. Normay I use a template with this VI description text when I create a new VI.
When I create a new VI with the 'create SubVI' Function, I always have to write the whole description text or get it by copy/past from a template VI. Is there a way to define a standard VI description text, which is automaticly included in this case?

Im using LabVIEW 8.0.1 for Linux.

Thanks for any Help!

codas
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Hi codas,

      I know this isn't the "automatic" solution you asked for, but since nobody replied yet, I thought maybe you could use it.  If you drop it on a diagram and hit run, it'll plug-in a default description into the calling VI.

TBD

"Inside every large program is a small program struggling to get out." (attributed to Tony Hoare)
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This is a good question, I know that you can create custom templates wher a description text is saved, but when creating a vi with the "create subvi" function this is not an option.  In many other languages (text based programming like c/c++) you are able to save a preference for an automatic header comment like "/*author, company, date...*/"  this should be an option for labview as well where you can specify a common description string and a company icon banner for all vis and subvis.  I would like to know how to do this without having to run all functions through a vi-server post processor to modify my vis through references and property nodes.

 

Paul

Paul Falkenstein
Coleman Technologies Inc.
CLA, CPI, AIA-Vision
Labview 4.0- 2013, RT, Vision, FPGA
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