How can take a Custom Data Type in TestStand and create a LabVIEW DataType?

[goldee]

I am using LV 8.2 and TS 3.5.

I have an existing Custom Data Type in TestStand and I want to make a LabView Type Def.  The TS DataType contains 11 elements: a Visa Resource Container of 2 elements (String, DeviceName and Number, Session), 9 Numerics and 1 String Array.  For Backwards compatability, I cannot modify the TestStand DataType.

Thanks,

Jean

[Filippo_Persia]

Hi Goldee,

You should be able to do that. It's a two step procedure.

1) Creates in LV a custom datatype that maps 1:1 yours TS datatype.

2) Go in the TypePalette in the properties of yours TS Datatype and check into LV Cluster Passing Menu'. Here you can Connect a specific Field of the TS datatype to a Specific Label of the corresponding LV datatype. Once you've done it the TS datatype will result modified, I mean "starred" but the change you applied should not impact the datatype structure itself only the way you pass it to LV.

Have a good day