Using Labview Operator Interface to display PDF Data Sheet

[Kiebach]

It appears as though the TestStand UI Reortview control does not support PDF files. 

Any suggestion on how to get my labview operator interface to display a PDF data sheet instead of the standard html/xml report generated by Teststand. I already have code to generate the PDF file I would just like figure out a way to view them using the "execution manager" in my operator interface.

[James M]

Hi Kiebach,

The TestStand report view would support PDF files if:
A) You have the Adobe Acrobat plug-in installed for Internet Explorer and
B) If you modified the process model to generate a PDF report instead of HTML, XML, etc.

I understand this may not what you had in mind as you probably want to generate both the existing TestStand report and your PDF file. In this case, I would suggest manually loading your PDF file into an Internet Explorer Active-X control on your front panel.

If you have any further questions about using the IE Active-X control on your front panel, please post them to the LabVIEW forums.

Regards,

[James M]

Hi Kiebach,

One more thought on the first method I mentioned (if this is in fact the path you want to go down). In order to get TestStand to open the report in IE, you may need to embed the PDF in an HTML file and leave the report type as HTML. TestStand knows that HTML reports should be displayed in IE, and IE should have the plugin to display PDF.

Regards,

[Kiebach]

Thank you for your help. I was able to get it to work by leaving the report format as HTML. Then I linked the Test Stand execution to the data sheet by passing html code that auto redirects the report display control to the PDF file. This HTML code is passed as the Report string in the 'Set Report' step following the 'TestReport Callback'  in the seq model. I have attached the modified seq file in case anyone is interested...