Is "Post Action Callback" or "PostAction Callback" a real term?

Mr._Jim · ‎05-09-2025

Hi folks,

Please bear with me, as I'm being an extreme pedant. (Which, incidentally, is a requirement for most NI certification exams.)

In the course of working on one of my plugins, I'm trying to decipher how the Execution.PostResultsCallbackMask works.

I'm reading this page:

I read this line:

PostResultsCallbackMaskOption_PostAction –(Value: 128) Specifies to call PostResults callbacks with all accumulated results for all PostAction callback sequences

If I search Google:

site:ni.com "Post Action Callback"

I get four results. "PostAction Callback" only returns the above page.

One of the results is an ancient TestStand manual:

I know what they're getting at: The odious abomination that is calling a subsequence as part of a post action.

What's the story with this term? Is it just a deprecated relic, or is it a real thing that isn't well-documented?

I'm thinking of submitting a diabolical exam question about "Post Action Callbacks."

I admit, I'm being saltier than usual with this post, but I'm told that my saltiness is relatively mild. 😁

Mr. Jim

~jiggawax~ · ‎05-26-2025

When a step in TestStand executes, one of the actions is a Post Action:

#32 from that chart

One of the options is to call a subsequence. That sequence gets called as a Post Action callback.

The flag you are looking at is asking if you want those results to be passed to the post result list processor as well.

Hope this helps.

jigg
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