03-27-2015 01:55 PM
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
03-27-2015 07:42 PM
03-30-2015 10:35 AM
Hello,
I was checking for you questions. It seems that all text that starts with ”#" is considered a bookmark. Just like this document says:
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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03-30-2015 11:06 AM
03-30-2015 11:13 AM
@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.
03-30-2015 11:37 AM
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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03-30-2015 05:46 PM - edited 03-30-2015 05:56 PM
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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03-30-2015 08:57 PM
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
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.