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mateusz_owczarek

Allow the sequence parameter to be used with default value if none specified

Status: New Submitted by Member on 11-03-2020 06:10 AM 1 Comment

See thread https://forums.ni.com/t5/NI-TestStand/Automatically-quot-Default-Value-quot-of-a-Parameter-in-a/m-p/3785701/highlight/false#M57087 for description of that case.

 

The solution could be to add a new flag: "UseDefaultValueByDefault" 

 

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Ray.R

Allow to edit parameter when prototype changes

Status: New Submitted by Knight of NI Knight of NI on 07-26-2013 10:54 AM 2 Comment

The MOST annoying part of working with TestStand is the fact that the developer has to re-enter e-v-e-r-y bloody value for a given parameter when the prototype changes in a LabVIEW VI.  I seem to recall that older versions of TestStand would allow the user to do that, but the more recent version don't.  Maybe my mind is playing tricks on me and this was never possible..

 

In any case... When dealing with two parameters which have over 300 (yes!! THREE HUNDRED) entries, this is a bloody nightmare!!  Doing it once is nightmareish.. Doing it multiple times is a death sentence!!!  Sidenote:  I inherited the code and cannot change its structure...

 

In this particular case, the valeus are all Locals.

 

The first idea on this subject is to allow editing the original parameters when making changes to a prototype (LabVIEW or any other source).  Or as the sister idea to this one, allow to Copy & Pate the contents of a container!  See this thread!

 

 

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j_dodek

Add some OOP feature to a seqeunce

Status: Under Consideration Submitted by Active Participant on 07-05-2010 06:51 AM 7 Comment

HI

 

It would be nice to make Sequences public or private within a SequnenceFile.

With this you where able to make powerful SequenceFiles librarys.  The biggest advantage of this

is you can show the consumer of the library only the "important" public sequences. The

private ones where invisible. This will help to avoid errors.

 

 

Regards

 

juergen

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Jeff_Bruce

Step highlighting or tagging

Status: New Submitted by Member on 06-30-2011 03:32 PM 3 Comment

When working with multiple long sequences it would be nice to bookmark locations making it easy to find where you were previously working.  The bookmark could be line highlighting or an icon on the left gutter.  Bookmarks would be saved with sequence.  Multiple colors or icon would be available.

 

 

SequenceEditorStepHighliting.jpg

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RayFarmer

New Paste Value

Status: Under Consideration Submitted by Trusted Enthusiast on 12-01-2011 01:40 AM 3 Comment

 You can copy the value of a selected variable to another element.

CopyValue.png

 

But you cannot paste the value into the selected element in an easy manner.

No_Paste_Value.png

 

What you have to do is click into the selected variable’s value field and then Paste, but this doesn’t produce the correct result (for strings anyway)......

 

PasteValue.png

 

You end up with is double quotes!!!

 

Resultant Paste.png

 

Also if you had ‘Copy Value’ on multiple selected elements and pasted them then you get

 

multiple selection.png

 

So it cannot handle multiple selections.

 

It would have been better if you could have selected the place where you wanted to paste the value(s) and a new menu item became available ie ‘Paste Value’.

 

New_PasteValue.png

 

This way should also be able to handle multiple selections.

 

The problem with double quotes shouldn’t occur and should be corrected with the current pasting of values.

 

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NitzZ

Custom Step to detect "Step Deletion"

Status: Under Consideration Submitted by Active Participant on 05-09-2012 06:07 AM 4 Comment

It would be nice to have some kind of Custom Step which gets triggered when a step is deleted from a sequence. Something very much similar to "OnNewStep" which is triggered when a Step is dropped into the sequence.


We may have an option, say, "OnStepDeletion" to detect the deletion of a step. This will be very helpful in many of the step usages.

 

The TestStand Flow Control Steps like "IF" and "FOR" use the "OnNewStep" to create an "END" step along with them when they are dropped. But there is no means to automatically remove the created "End" when the "FOR" or "IF" Steps are deleted from the sequence. The proposed "OnStepDeletion" can be handy in such cases.

I hope you all will support this idea as it will make many of the functionalities more efficient. 

 

Regards,
Nitz 

(PS : Forgive me if anyone has posted this idea already. I couldn't find any such posts)

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Ludwig72

Expression Numeric Functions

Status: New Submitted by Member on 07-01-2015 01:14 AM 1 Comment

Expressions offer the following exponential and logarithmic functions:

 

   Exp()    -> Exponential (base e)

   Log()    -> Logarithm (base e)

   Log10()  -> Logarithm (base 10)

 

Computers always calculating digital. I have to handle binary values very often. Please add the following functions for calculating with binary values:

 

   Exp2()   -> Exponential (base 2)

   Log2()   -> Logarithm (base 2)

 

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RayFarmer

Beable to pass parameters with the Sequence used in Post Actions

Status: New Submitted by Trusted Enthusiast on 06-16-2010 12:38 PM 3 Comment

When you set the Post Action On Pass | On Fail in a step to use Call sequence, the only ways to pass data to this sequence is either use some sort of Global (StationGlobals / FileGlobals) or use Locals with the setting "Propagate to SubSequence".

 

There should be a cleaner way and that is to beable to pass parameters as you do with SequenceCall step type.

 

new Post Action.PNG

 

 

regards

Ray Farmer

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Joe_H1

Right-Click Insert and Delete Array Elements

Status: Completed Submitted by Member on 10-26-2010 03:50 PM 2 Comment

Right-clicking on an element of an array variable provides options to "Insert Element Before" and "Delete Element" as can be done with LabVIEW array controls and constants.

 

 Insert Delete Array Element - Final.JPG

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Kracken

Allow Users to Change Font Colors for Steps in the Sequence Editor

Status: New Submitted by on 09-13-2011 02:46 PM 9 Comment

It would be helpful to be able to change the font colors that are displayed for steps in the sequence editor.  This would allow users to identify steps quicker for more efficient editing and debugging.

 

StepColors.PNG

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pulidotech

Ignore Individual Sequence Analyzer Results in TestStand

Status: New Submitted by Active Participant on 07-23-2018 08:40 AM 1 Comment

When using VI Analyzer, one can type "#via_ignore TestName" (e.g. "#via_ignore Spell Check") and then that VI/object won't have those specific test results when running VI Analyzer.  I would like to see this type of functionality added to TestStand.  For example, an individual step could have in its comments "#sa_ignore TestName" (e.g. "#sa_ignore NI_FileByExpression")

 

Pulido Technologies LLC

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Manooch_H

Add Quick Drop to TestStand

Status: Completed Submitted by Active Participant on 06-22-2011 03:43 PM 4 Comment

How many of you would benefit from the addition of a feature similar to LabVIEW's Quick Drop?

The functionality that initially comes to mind would be typing to search for your desired step type or step template and dropping it into the sequence you are developing. Please add comments for any additional functionality you might like to see in a TestStand step Quick Drop (for example, you may want TestStand to automatically navigate to the Step Properties of a step after it is dropped from Quick Drop).

Please also add comments for any other situations/scenarios (outside of adding steps to a sequence) where you might benefit from a Quick Drop-like functionality. Thank you.

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AllenR

The ability to have line numbers for all steps in the left hand gutter.

Status: Under Consideration Submitted by on 05-25-2011 08:02 AM 5 Comment

Having the ability to have line numbers for all steps in the left hand gutter would help in troubleshooting, code reviews, and any time when communicating about a sequence.  There seems to be a gutter there already, so adding there seems to be a place for them already.  Error messages can also post the line number too.

 

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crossrulz

Select VI PPL View

Status: New Submitted by Knight of NI Knight of NI on 05-03-2018 06:56 AM 1 Comment

When choosing a VI for a step, if you browse into a PPL, the view shows the directory structure inside of the PPL.  A better view would match what LabVIEW shows: the Virtual Folder layout.

 

I tend to keep my library VIs in a flat directory structure, but organize them in my project with Virtual Folders.  But the PPL view in TestStand just shows the single directory instead of the nice organization that I set up in the project.

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warren_scott

Improve error checking when connecting LabVIEW Clusters and TestStand Types

Status: Completed Submitted by Active Participant on 06-20-2012 12:04 PM 3 Comment

Recently ran into a problem when I was configuring a LabVIEW module that passed in/out clusters/types.  I had a mistake in my code that the teststand data type was not configured to allow it to pass to LabVIEW clusters, but the problem was not as obvious as I thought it should be.

 

Here's what I had:

noconnectionproblems.png

 

And when I click on the red checkmark "check expression" for "Cluster", it shows up as "No Errors".  Everything looks great, right?  Well, it isn't. 

It's not until I expand "Cluster" to show the elements that I see that there are connectivity problems.

nowseeconnectionproblems.png

 

It would be nice if "Locals.mylocal" expression would turn RED and show a "check expression error" if any of it's children also had a connection problem (specifically in this case that the type in TestStand was not configured to allow passing to LabVIEW clusters).  This way it would be a lot easier to see.

 

Even worse, this problem is NOT found by sequence analyzer -- it's left to be found at runtime.

 

I know this is all because I had a bug/mistake in my code, but it would be a lot easier to track down and fix if these changes were made.

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Levic

Drag and drop from LabVIEW function palette

Status: New Submitted by Member on 04-29-2011 08:38 AM 6 Comment

For simple operations would be nice to have possibility to drag and drop functions from LV functions palette directly (default step type can be Action)

 

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LabBEAN

Build .sql File button should work

Status: New Submitted by Active Participant on 06-26-2014 01:45 PM 2 Comment

As NI has acknowledged (here, here) for more than 5 years, the Build .sql File button creates schemas with errors.  This is even true for the default schemas in the left of the dialog.  Would be great if NI would go ahead and correct this.  BTW - to create default tables in the meantime, a developer should use a SQL file located here:  <TestStand>\Components\Models\TestStandModels\Database

 

 

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alex_bauer

Option to store an independent TestStand configuration with workspace

Status: Completed Submitted by Member on 06-29-2012 04:51 AM 2 Comment

It would be great to have the ability to create an independent TestStand configuration that is valid in a workspace context. That would allow project specific search directories, StationGlobals an several other configuration items you normally don't want to share across projects on the same test station.

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RayFarmer

Find / Replace Dialog popup the Variable Dialog to auto complete names

Status: New Submitted by Trusted Enthusiast on 11-02-2011 11:15 AM Comment

It would be nice when entering in the Find: control to beable to pop open the Variable dialog (as in the expression editor) to select variable names. It could be linked to the Limit Search to: control. Like wise on the Replace control when that window appears. 

 

I know you have that drop down facility on this control but that only remembers what you have previously entered.

 

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pulidotech

Boolean Arrays in AllOf, AnyOf, etc.

Status: New Submitted by Active Participant on 06-10-2020 09:06 AM Comment

I would like to see commands like AllOf, AnyOf, AND, OR, etc. work with boolean arrays as inputs.

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