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Bug (feature?) - Constant labels show up in bookmark manager

Very minor, but thought I'd bring it up.  I noticed it while using the LAVA UI Tools addin.  Created a couple of constants to relabel the controls for 2 button dialog and they showed up in my bookmark manager.  The labels were not visible, but still showed in bookmarks.

 

Controls with # in label do not show, which makes me think it is a bug rather than feature.

 

LabVIEW 14.0f1

 

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Well if its a bug I hope they don't fix it! That could be very useful.

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Hello, 

 

I was checking for you questions. It seems that all text that starts with ”#" is considered a bookmark. Just like this document says:

 

https://decibel.ni.com/content/blogs/labview-news-english/2013/10/18/5-things-you-need-to-know-about...

 

The "#" does not have to be necessarily at the beginning of the name.

 

Hope this answer your question since it is not a bug.

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Randy @Rscd27@
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Excellent!

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@Rscd27 wrote:

Hello, 

 

I was checking for you questions. It seems that all text that starts with ”#" is considered a bookmark. 


 

Except when it is in the name or caption of a control/indicator.  It does seem like the label of anything on the block diagram acts as a bookmark though (including wire labels).  Even if they are hidden.

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I say it is a bug that it includes constant labels in the search for bookmarks, and it is a feature that it finds bookmarks that have the # symbol other than at the beginning of the text.

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Well i believe the knowledge base is really clear you can check it LabVIEW by creating a comment and using "#" at any place. It  says "at the beggining of any tex" , not at the beggining of the label or comment. This a feature that is included in LabVIEW, maybe the access to a constant can be useful in LabVIEW for other users. What he should do is just rename the label as "Button 1". However i will try to make more research here in NI, to see if its ment to be like that or not.

 

 

Randy 

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Looking at the LabVIEW upgrade notes for 2013 gives some good information about bookmarks (pg17 of linked document)

 

http://www.ni.com/pdf/manuals/371780j.pdf

 

labels.JPG

 

The note at the bottom explains what you can attach comments too.  I could see this being pretty convenient if you want to attach a comment to a stub or subdiagram labels so you don't have to have free floating text or label arrows everywhere (I was really excited for being able to attach comments but I find it results in too many arrows).

 

I cannot find references to making multiple bookmarks per comment anywhere but I think it is a nice feature regardless. With this you can link the same comments to two bookmark groups, #ToDo #Jacobson could put the comment on a Master to do list but also put it on my personal list so I know I am responsible for that function.

 

Also props to Edupo for the idea exchange submission.

Matt J | National Instruments | CLA
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