Edit Step List Configurations (saving and transferring new configurations)

[RustyStrings]

I have used Edit Step List Configurations to create the display I want in my custom OI

I would like to know how to have this same Step list used when I deploy everything to the target system

[~jiggawax~]

Not sure why you would want that on a deployment machine.  I do know that the information is stored in this directory:

C:\Documents and Settings\<user>\Local Settings\Application Data\National Instruments\<TestStand Version>

So it is a per user thing.  There is a bin file and xml file in there.  The xml file contains the Step List Configuration settings.  You will need to deploy those files to the same location on the deployed machine.

You would have to test out whether or not you can do it for All Users.

This was on an XP machine.

Hope this helps,

[RustyStrings]

I think I found the file (Windows 7)

"C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\National Instruments\TestStand 2010 SP1\UserInterface.xml"

[~jiggawax~]

Yes that would be for the UserInterface.   You can verify by looking in the file and find a line that says FileStepListConfigurations.  If it says SeqEditor.xml then obviously it's for the Sequence Editor.

Regards,

[RustyStrings]

Now that I know which file stores these configuration, the next step is to figure out how to get it to install

I tried with both the OI exe installer and the Sequnece deployment installer and I can not figure out a way to put the file in the correct place

it does appear as thought there is a seperate file for each user (not a problem there will be only one log ing/username)

I have found the file "C:\Program Files\National Instruments\TestStand 2010 SP1\Bin\DefaultUIConfigurationFile.xml"

Imade a copy of it for backup

Then renamed my UserInterface.xml to DefaultUIConfigurationFile.xml and put it in the C:\Program Files\National Instruments\TestStand 2010 SP1\Bin folder (overwrite the existing file)

Now when there is no UserInterface.xml the software copies the modified default and uses that

For new installs I believe this will work (if the DefaultUIConfigurationFile.xml is part of the install)

[RustyStrings]

I also had to do the following to get this to work

add the DefaultUIConfigurationFile.xml to the workspace

in the deployment make sure it was to be installed to the bin folder of TestStand

one quick test seems to work and should work for all new users

[Rohama_K]

Hi,

There are two files you need. You found one and the other one you need is layout_current.bin. You can find more information about what you are looking for in this KnowledgeBase.