Can I enable LabVIEW to select a NI Scope Device automatically instead of the user selecting manually?

[bermea]

Hi, is it possible to programmatically select a NI Scope Device instead of allowing the user to manually selecting device? And use this data as a resource name input for niScope Initialize? 

What I want to do is allow LabVIEW to search the MAX find the available NI Scope Device and introduce this value into the resource name input of niScope Initialize. I have tried various ways(NI DAQmx device property node, NI Scope property node, Get DAQ Info.vi) but I cant convert the data into IVI Session of class niScope.

Thanks

[DFGray · Accepted solution]

For NI-SCOPE devices, you can use the NI-ModInst interface to query for what devices are available.  It is buried in the Utility Functions in the NI-SCOPE palette.  Or you can search the palette for NI-ModInst.

[DFGray]

For newer readers of this thread, NI-ModInst has been largely replaced by the System Configuration VIs (Measurement I/O»System Configuration).