WHERE IS DAQ Assist vi and Chap 4 help tutorial?

[JohnsHopkins]

I'm trying to find the DAQ Assist VI as described in the Getting Started guide Chapter 4, but I can't even find the Help topic "Taking an NI-DAQmx Measurement in LabVIEW" referred to in the manual.

Moreover, I am wondering where the so-called "Input palette" is.

I can create the DAQmx task from the menu, but I can't find the vi.

Thanks,

Brian O'Rourke

JHU 

[Otis]

Hi Brian,

Every VI is composed of three parts:

1. Front Panel
2. Block Diagram
3. Icon/Connector Pane

The Input Palette is found on the Functions Palette.  To get to there open a New VI and you will see a Block Diagram associate with the Front Panel.  Simply right-click on the Block Diagram (the white one) to open the Functions Palette.  You should see a subpalette called Input and in there you will find the DAQ Assistant.  Or you can find it in the Functions > All Functions > NI Measurements > DAQmx subpalette.

It sounds like you are a pretty new user to LabVIEW.  I would definitely recommend taking a look at the LabVIEW Fundamentals page, so that you can start off on the right foot with your application.

Also check out this page and some of the links on it:
Learn 10 Functions in NI-DAQmx and Solve 80% of Data Acquisition Applications

Regards,

[JohnsHopkins]

Otis,
Thanks for the reply, but I figured out what was happening. It was related to the Express VI configuration options.
I had just upgraded to DACmx and from Labview 6.1 to 7.1 and the option "Configure express VIs immediately" was checked by default.
This caused the DAC assistant to open immediately when I selected "Create New DAQmx task" and the Menu bar was not accessible. Hence, the panel or block windows weren't available, so I couldn't find anything.

Disabling that option took care of the problem, so it might be useful to add a message in the upgrade notes to help users who are starting to use DAQmx for the first time. Also, I have still not found the tutorial help entry referred to in Chapter 4 of the  Labview7 Express "Getting started" manual.

Anyway, I really like the new features and development time is much faster now.
Thanks.
Brian