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Ryan_ngc

An auto populate array elements option in the "resize array" dialog box

Status: New Submitted by Member on 10-22-2010 12:58 PM 4 Comment

It would be nice to have an option to resize an array and have the new elements contain the same properties/variables as the first element. The resize array dialog box has a checkbox for "Empty". How about one for "Auto populate from first index" or something?

 

I currently do a copy and paste into each new element, which is no fun.

 

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John_Speckhard

Organize sub-sequences in a sequence file more like file directory structure

Status: New Submitted by Member on 04-09-2013 02:58 PM 2 Comment

Often times a sequence file ends up containing dozens (or even hundreds) of sequences.  Currently they all show up in the sequence editor Sequence Window as a flat list.  It sure would be nice to view them organized in folders so that, for instance, all my sequences dealing with Rs485 communications or whatever could be group together in a "folder" called "RS485".  Also it would be great if there was a displayable property for each sequence showing the date/time last modified.  Then you could sort the list on that and see which sequences have changed. (really helpful if you have multiple guys who might be making changes.)

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mrk_ramesh

Include Wait(x mSec) or Delay(x mSec) operation

Status: New Submitted by Member on 11-04-2020 02:06 AM Comment

Please include Wait(x mSec) or Delay(x mSec) operation as one of the method in sequence context, so that this can be used in Function Statement step, Post action of any step to force the step to wait for few mSec after completing it's operation. This is to avoid explicit inclusion of Wait step and majorly useful during looping a step and provide delay between each iteration.

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fazekasc

Create a way to use the find/replace tool to select actual steps in the TestStand sequence editor instead of just listing matching text values in the find window

Status: New Submitted by Member on 02-10-2014 02:00 PM 5 Comment
TestStand already has an awesome tool to change multiple steps at one time, but you have to select all of those steps first by clicking on them with the mouse and using the shift and ctrl click methods.  This works fine for a few steps here and there, but when you have 1000 steps you need to select that are scattered among 1500 other steps, it turns into a two day project.
 
I'd like to see something else that's different than the find/replace window that gives you the option to select and highlight the steps you just searched for in the sequence editor.  It could be a checkbox in the find/replace tool window that gives you the option to either search for the text and display the text matches in that window, or to select the actual steps in TestStand.
 
I just had this problem, and ended up creating some ActiveX code to automatically blast through my sequence and change hundreds of NumericLimitTest step types to Action step types.  That example code was attached to that thread.
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j_dodek

Add Debugging feature: Execute to cursor

Status: New Submitted by Active Participant on 07-27-2010 06:03 AM Comment

 

It would be nice to have the same debug feature like in Visual Studio

There is a possibility to run/execute to cursor's position.   

At the monent there is only "set next step to cursor" but this is not compareable with this feature.

 

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Well, I know could set another breakpoint and resume to it. But most times i will forget to delete it....

So why not this stuff ?

 

Regards

 

Juergen

 

 

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TobiasT

See last changes at Undo Button

Status: New Submitted by Member on 03-30-2012 01:04 AM 1 Comment

During development of sequences I often do "trivial" changes in order to check parts of the sequence that I do not want to save afterwards  (e.g set Run Modes of steps to Skip). It would be very helpful to see the last changes that can be undone before clicking the Undo-Button arrow (the same applies for the Redo Button of course). This feature would have two major advantages, since one could...

  • ... decide whether it makes sense to save the last changes or whether those were only for trial reasons and hence should be neglected
  • ... undo several changes in one step

This is implemeted in Microsoft Office programs for example (see screenshot from MS Excel) and I use it there pretty often.

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MaximeR

Support Additional Station Info into header for standard Report generation plug-ins

Status: New Submitted by Active Participant Active Participant on 01-03-2017 09:00 AM 2 Comment

Hello,

 

As we can read in this very good document, we can add information in header for UUT in Report.

It is mentionned that we can do that for StationInfo in the same way:

"The report below includes the custom data in the AdditionalData container.  The process for adding custom Station data is similar, but uses the Parameters.ModelData.StationInfo property instead of Parameters.UUT."

In fact, it doesn't work in TestStand 2014 and later, certainly the same for 2013 because the default report plug-ins doesn't support it as you can see in the help of TestStand 2016.

Maybe NI can add it like it is done for UUT.AdditionalData. The goal is to avoid to put some Station Info in UUT result to show it easily in reports.

 

Best regards.

MaximeR

CLA - CTD

 

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RayFarmer

Beable to Group variables

Status: New Submitted by Trusted Enthusiast on 11-08-2011 01:38 AM 3 Comment

When there are a lot of variables defined an Sequence / Sequence File, it would be nice to beable to group them to help use and readability.

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paulmw

Merge Stations Globals on deployment

Status: New Submitted by Active Participant on 08-30-2011 10:47 AM 1 Comment

I know that I can deploy station globals by adding the ini file to my workspace but when deploying them I want the Station Globals to be merged with the existing station globals on the deployed machine.  Please add this as a feature to the deploy utility.

 

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crelf

FTP: Specify settings by expression

Status: New Submitted by Trusted Enthusiast Trusted Enthusiast on 07-13-2010 03:14 PM Comment

I'd like to be able to specify the username, password, and local & remote paths by expression:

 

18787i328326F4E8289180

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jrasco

Match Container Values within Cluster during Prototype Re-load

Status: New Submitted by Member on 07-13-2016 05:38 PM Comment

Defining a custom step type is an iterative process getting the Post Step VI, Edit VI, Step Type Fields, etc. all matched up and working together.  I often tweak controls and indicators throughout the process.  If I have defined the substeps in TestStand, that means reloading the VI prototype throughout this iteration.

 

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If my controls/indicators are numerics, strings, or arrays of either, the existing parameter values are retained during the reload.  Containers are different, however.  If the cluster input of the VI is unchanged between the exisiting prototype and the reloaded version, the container parameter values are retained.  My complaint is that if one element in the cluster changes, the entire container gets thrown out during the reload.

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In this particular case, all I did was change a cluster element from an array to an element.  Nothing else (cluster labels, etc.) changed.  Because of this, the entire container gets thrown out during the reload along with 30+ values that I had assigned.

 

Unfortunately, I find myself doing this multiple times during development so the time it takes to re-type everyhting adds up over the entire dev cycle.

 

My idea is to have container values retained (similar to non-container values) during a VI prototype reload.

 

Thanks,

Jacob

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mavimi

Support "Add Array Item" for Array of Structs in .NET code modules

Status: New Submitted by Member on 07-13-2016 09:08 AM Comment

Currently there is only the "Create type from struct" button available, when there is an parameter, that requires an array of structs, in a .NET call

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What would be nice, is to have the features available, that are available when passing clusters to labview:

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That is: 

  • The Add Array Item button
  • The Delete/Delete All Item buttons
  • The feature of 'uncollapsing' a struct and setting the values for each field in the struct.

 

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Pete.Dunc

TestStand Taskbar Jump List

Status: New Submitted by Active Participant on 04-18-2014 05:50 AM 1 Comment

It would be very handy to have a jump list of recent/pinned files for TestStand.  This could also include simple tasks like creating a new sequence file.

 

Current:

 

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Proposed:

 

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hugo_fr

Deployment Utility File version auto-incrementation option

Status: New Submitted by Member on 03-22-2022 04:46 AM Comment

It would be nice to have an auto-incrementation option checkbox (like LabVIEW executable version).

 

And addindg the build index would be even better ...

 

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BasvanDijke

2d array as table in report

Status: New Submitted by on 11-22-2010 05:02 AM Comment

When a 2d array is added to the report as table, you get the following table:

 

 

[0][0]  00

[0][1]  01

[1][0]  10

[1][1]  01

 

It would be better to have a table like this:

      [0] [1]

[0]  00  10

[1]  10  11

 

Currently this needs to be implememented in the stylesheet. But for a lot of users, this is a complex workaround.

 

 

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warren_scott

Context Aware AutoComplete

Status: New Submitted by Active Participant on 09-10-2013 10:59 AM Comment

Background --

I LOVE the autocomplete feature within any of the formula windows.  Start typing Locals.F, and it allows you to autocomplete to Locals.Foo.

 

However, if you have Locals.Foo1, Locals.Foo2, Locals.Foo3, etc, you need to keep typing until you get enough to uniquely match the one you want, or start using the arrow keys in the list (or select with a mouse).

 

The problem is that if you just type Locals.F, the list of items that shows up is the entire list of Locals.*, in the order they are in Locals.*  In reality, once I've typed Locals.F, I should only get the locals variables that start with F, so I don't need to down arrow through all the other Locals.Bar1, Locals.Bar2 that are inbetween Locals.Foo1 and Locals.Foo2 (because for some weird reason I really want the order of my locals variables to be Foo1, Bar1, Bar2, Foo2, Foo3).

 

So, let's restrict the autocomplete function to only show the items that match what I have already typed, or at least regroup the matching variables at the top of the list so they are easier to select from.

 

Even better would be to have it context aware.  If the formula I am typing is "Locals.MyNumber = 3.1415 * Locals.F", and Locals.Foo1 is a string, Locals.Foo2 is an array of booleans, and Locals.Foo3 is a number, then it should skip over Locals.Foo1 and Foo2 because the context requires a number.  Foo1, Foo2, Foo3 should all be in the list of items to choose from if I want to arrow up or down in the list (or use a mouse to select), but Foo3 should be the "defaulted" item that is used if I just hit enter after Locals.F.

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kubes_ch

Change the path to localization language directory in TestStand

Status: New Submitted by Member Member on 10-02-2014 04:07 AM 4 Comment

Since our projects involve several developers working in tandem, we manage all project relevant data under SCM (Source Code Management). This way sharing and exchange of data between developers is much easier. To ensure that all developers can access and use the same TestStand Components – especially the language directory – the TestStand configuration directory is also under SCM control.

During the development process if a developer checks out the project folder, for example to „C:\ProjectX“, then the language folder is available under „C:\ProjectX\TestStand\Components\Language“.

 

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In Teststand there is an option to point the configuration directory to a custom directory. To do this, go under the Station Options – Preferences – Configuration Directory,  and change the default path to our custom checkout path.

 

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However, even changing this setting, the language files are still get loaded from the default configuration path. In other words, assigning new custom path (which is „C:\ProjectX\TestStand\Components\Language“) seems to have no effect and the older default location (which is „C:\Users\Public\Documents\National Instruments\TestStand“) keeps getting selected instead.

This means, every developer has to copy the ProjectX TestStand folder into the default location manually a SCM update.

 

Suggested solution: make the whole default location directory changeable, to point to a custom directory. Thus during development of different projects, it is much easier to switch between the projects and to have the possibility to check out the code from a SCM to only one directory (and continue working with them).

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warren_scott

add check for obsolete methods/properties/events to Sequence Analyzer

Status: New Submitted by Active Participant on 06-29-2012 01:00 PM 2 Comment

I know that I can write my own sequence analyzer tasks, but I think this one should be default out-of-the-box from NI:

 

Add a sequence analyzer warning task that checks for usage of obsolete methods / properties / events.  This way we can use sequence analyzer to help find them and make our code easier to upgrade with future versions of TS

 

Otherwise, trying to find all the obsolete "stuff" is REALLY REALLY annoying -- a lot of searching

 

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MimiKLM

Get the focus out from the OK button in the Expression Browser window.

Status: New Submitted by Active Participant on 08-29-2014 09:47 AM 1 Comment

Hi,

 

As in the subject: Get the focus out from the OK button in the Expression Browser window.

 

Now, when you write an expression in the Expression Browser and you'd like to go to new line by hitting Enter, instead of going to new line the Expression Browser closes down.

 

O course we can use Shift+Enter combination to get to the new line, but the habit is to hit the Enter key.

 

However, if the focus would be not on the OK button but inside of Expression window the problem would dissapear.

 

K.

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Adam G

Have an Option to Include Measurements From a Multiple Numeric Limit Test as a Graph on the Report

Status: New Submitted by on 04-05-2012 05:10 PM Comment

In the report options, when you have selected to include measurements and insert graphs, it would be nice if TestStand could provide an option to display multiple numeric limit test measurements in graphical form. To expand on that, when the value goes outside of a limit, it would be nice to have a red point on the graph to show where this occurred at. 

 

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