error in Labview help and function

[rayclout]

Good Morning

Could somebody please tell me where to report an error that if found in the LV2009 Help under "Read From Spreadsheet File VI"

Thanks

[RavensFan]

Add the details of the error to this thread you've started.  It gives others a chance to look at it and confirm it.  (Not all things people claim are errors or bugs in LabVIEW actually are.  Sometimes it is just programmer error.)

The National Instruments engineers monitor the forums.  When they see somebody reporting an issue and agree, they will issue a CAR# and document it in their internal databases so that it can possibly be fixed later.

So what's the error?  (Screenshots are helpful.  Post them as a .png file.)

[rayclout]

Ravens fan

I didn't say it was a "bug". It looks simply like a typo in an explanation.

Drag the vi "Read From Spreadsheet File VI" onto a blank block diagram.

Open contextual help window and click on detailed help for this vi.

Now, read the description for "format".....viz....."format specifies how to convert the numbers to characters. If the format is %.3f (default), the VI blah blah blah"

Using ther wiring tool click on the vi format and it is actually %s

I might be missing something here, but it seems pretty straightforward to me.

regards

Ray

[RavensFan]

That VI is polymorphic.  It has 3 possibilities, Double, Integer, and String.  Which do you have dropped?  I would guess the string type.  Right click on the function and go to Visible Items >> Polymorphic VI Selector to show it.

Each of the 3 types has a default format, %.3f for Double,  %d for Integer, and %s for String.

The detailed help also has 3 different sections, one for each instance of the VI.  If you click on the dropdown box at the top that says "Select and instance", it will jump you to the matching section of the help.