View testStand execution into labview

[Rodéric]

Hi everyone,

I'd like to customize TestStand execution View or make something similar into LabVIEW. (Best way would be getting the info TestStand uses to build this view)

The reason I don't wanna use TestStand Execution VIew is there is too much info for some clients and I just wanna display few infos.

What would be the best way to programatically retrieve those information?

I tried to use invoke nodes to customize the Execution view but it seems like it doesn't work at run time nor do I have acces to everything I need.

Best regards,

Roderic

ps: I'm particularly interested in getting step name, and status, and getting the arrow location if possible

[dug9000 · Accepted solution]

The easiest thing to do would be to customize the execution view using the step list configuration settings. You can see the affects of this using the sequence editor or a full featured UI. Right-click on the step list and choose the "Step list configuration" option from the menu. I'm pretty sure you can remove all the columns but the name and status. You can also do things at a lower level if you'd like, but it's a bit more complicated than you are probably thinking. You will have to handle the UIMessageEvent on the Applicationmgr and handle the trace message and get the first sequence context from the thread associated with that message and then check previous step index and if it's not -1 then get the previousstep property and get what you want from that, then use next step index, and the current step group on the sequence context to determine what step will run next (if any). There's quite a bit of code involved in having as rich a display as the sequence view control provides.

Hope this helps,

-Doug

[Rodéric]

I'm not sure where I can find the step list configuration settings.

For the second solution it seems like there's some serious coding involved

thanks for pointing those solutions out.

[JÞB]

You could also build a User Interface in LabVIEW.  the shipping example "Simple UI.vi" that ships with TesstStand examples. is a good place to start. 

[dug9000]

In the sequence editor or full featured UI (maybe UI has to be in editor mode), just right-click on the step list and you should see a menu item "Step list configuration". At least for recent versions of TestStand.

-Doug

[Rodéric]

I use LabVIEW and TestStand 2010. I also modified the full featured UI, but if I click on the step list changes do not apply during execution. I'll keep you posted on Monday after trying another time with both methods. thanks for your help anyway.

[dug9000]

There are two separate sets of settings in the step list configuration dialog, one for execution time and one for edit time. Change the execution time ones.

-Doug

[Rodéric]

Thank you for your help, solution works fine!

[JÞB]

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@Rodéric wrote:

Thank you for your help, solution works fine!

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What solution?

Please, help the community by explaining what you did and what challenges you overcame.

[Rodéric]

Hi,

I modified the container configuration while running (I had to modify it in edit mode and at run time) I didn't know you can edit configuration while VI is running...

I didn't try to access it programmatically yet.

Regards,