At this time there is nothing built into the default operation of TestStand that will behave in this template-style manner, however depending on what in particular you want this template to be I think building a custom tool will have much the same effect. The code for the Sequence Editor is not editable so adding new elements to the File Menu is non-trivial however the Tools Menu is completely user customizable. You could build a tool that could create new/ access currently open sequence file and programmatically add the new file globals, callbacks, and even steps using API functions such as SequenceFile.CreateCallbackOverrideSequence.
To reference the currently loaded sequence file you will need to use the path “Runstate.InitialSelection.SelectedFile”. Ho
wever, one word of warning, once this tool is created and loaded into the Tools menu, it will be available from OI as well as the Sequence Editor. National Instruments requires additional development licenses when customers programmatically create/modify sequence files on a machine that is not the development machine. You can find detailed information about tool building in the User Manual (chapters 3 and 4) and also in the shipping example located in the directory /Examples/SequenceBuilderTool/
on your harddrive.
Regards,
Elaine R.
National Instruments
http://www.ni.com/ask
