View Computer Name

[TonyJ]

How can I retrieve my full computer name in TestStand 3.0?  I have several testers that we run and I want to be able to differentiate testers to data.

Tony

[RayFarmer]

Hi,

I thought it was already outputed to the report in the header?

Regards

Ray Farmer

[DWeiland]

Hi Tony,

Under Configure >> Station Options >> Preferences you can select to have the Station ID be the same as your computer name. In that case, like Ray said, the Computer name is included in the report header and can be found in the sequence context here:

RunState.Root.Locals.StationInfo.StationID

However, if you do not have this option checked, then you can still obtain the Computer Name through the TestStand API. Using an ActiveX / COM Action Step, the following parameters will return the Computer Name as a string value:

Object Reference:      RunState.Engine
Automation Server:     NI TestStand API 3.0 (Ver 1.0)
Object Class:              Engine (IEngine)
Action:                         Get Property
Property::                    ComputerName

Hope this helps Tony, have a good one.