Trying to Export Waveform Chart to Excel

[augustg]

Why do I get this error?

[MarcoMauri]

Hi!

Can you show also the relevant part of your code, please?

Regards,

Marco

[GerdW]

Hi August,

from your picture it seems you're trying to save a file on your PCs harddisc while running a VI on a realtime target (conclusion from error message mentioning "Real Time Interface" and different path formatting).

You can't save a file from your target to a different PCs harddisc!!! You have to create that file on a local storage (using proper file paths) or use network access to transport data (like shared variables) to your PC...

[augustg]

I see, because my program is running in real-time. So if I want to save in my PC, I need to create a VI in computer right? Does simply calling the VI from the computer in the Real-Time VI fixes this problem?

[GerdW]

Hi august,

to repeat my message: You can't save a file from your target to a different PCs harddisc!!!

Your VI runs on the target, even when you watch it running on your monitor. Just look at the left down corner of the VI's frontpanel:

Here LabVIEW tells you where the VI is running. In the shown picture the VI belongs to a project and is running on a target named "Demo-Fzg" (which is a cRIO)...

[augustg]

So the only way to save the data is by right clicking the waveform chart and export as Excel?

[GerdW]

Hi august,

to repeat my message: You have to create that file on a local storage (using proper file paths) or use network access to transport data (like shared variables) to your PC...

LabVIEW comes with a lot of examples. Did you check them?

LabVIEW comes with some predefined projects. Some include host ("PC") and target ("RT cRIO") applications like yours. Did you check them?

You always have the option to transfer data from target to host. Use them to automatically create files on your host's harddisc!

[augustg]

Great, thanks for the input