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How to change subvi terminal's name?
toronto
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06-26-2003 02:39 PM
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I made a subvi from selection and works fine.
When one uses the wiring tool to touch 1 of terminals,
it shows a long and ugly name. How can I change
it into a short and meaningful name?
When one uses the wiring tool to touch 1 of terminals,
it shows a long and ugly name. How can I change
it into a short and meaningful name?
Ben
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06-27-2003 07:44 AM
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open the front panel of the sub-VI.
Edit the name of the control/indicator as you like.
Save the sub-VI.
Go back to you calling VI, the name will have changed.
Ben
Edit the name of the control/indicator as you like.
Save the sub-VI.
Go back to you calling VI, the name will have changed.
Ben
Retired Senior Automation Systems Architect with Data Science Automation LabVIEW Champion Knight of NI and Prepper LinkedIn Profile YouTube Channel
06-27-2003 11:01 AM
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Thanks.
It was what I thought. But it didn't work
by just changing the name. Attached is the vi.
The name 'GRAPH' is shown as 'Mar-Lev Nonl. Fit.'
which is a inside subvi it calls.
It was what I thought. But it didn't work
by just changing the name. Attached is the vi.
The name 'GRAPH' is shown as 'Mar-Lev Nonl. Fit.'
which is a inside subvi it calls.
Ben
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06-27-2003 12:24 PM
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Hi toronto,
Please pass the to NI support (800 433 3488).
This apears to be a bug!
If you edit the "caption" and save the sub-vi the name the shows up on the connector pane update.
To the best of my knowledge, this is wrong!
Please let NI know about this.
Ben
Please pass the to NI support (800 433 3488).
This apears to be a bug!
If you edit the "caption" and save the sub-vi the name the shows up on the connector pane update.
To the best of my knowledge, this is wrong!
Please let NI know about this.
Ben
Retired Senior Automation Systems Architect with Data Science Automation LabVIEW Champion Knight of NI and Prepper LinkedIn Profile YouTube Channel
JeffBoettcher
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06-27-2003 12:33 PM
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I cannot determine what the problem is with this, as I do not know what toolkit / toolset the sub-VI you are calling is from, and I do not have it installed.
My guess would be that this is a simple difference between the item on the sub-VI's front panel showing the "label", whereas the name of the output when used as a sub-VI should be determined by the object's "caption".
My guess would be that this is a simple difference between the item on the sub-VI's front panel showing the "label", whereas the name of the output when used as a sub-VI should be determined by the object's "caption".
JeffBoettcher
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06-27-2003 12:38 PM
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Brief follow-up note - by default, a control/indicator has the same value for caption as label, so it may appear like the label of the object is what is used. However, once you show the caption and change it to something else, you can see that this is not the case.
Ben
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06-27-2003 12:40 PM
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OK!
It looks like I'm gonna learn something here.
I generally do not use captions on sub-VI and just leave the captions hidden. I can only guess this is why I never noticed this before.
Thank you Jeff B.
looks like I owe the exchange another 30 answers to pay for this lesson.
Ben
It looks like I'm gonna learn something here.
I generally do not use captions on sub-VI and just leave the captions hidden. I can only guess this is why I never noticed this before.
Thank you Jeff B.
looks like I owe the exchange another 30 answers to pay for this lesson.
Ben
Retired Senior Automation Systems Architect with Data Science Automation LabVIEW Champion Knight of NI and Prepper LinkedIn Profile YouTube Channel
Al_S
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06-27-2003 12:55 PM
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See Ben's new thread here
maluigario
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04-09-2020 12:38 PM
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We're on LabVIEW 2019 and this is still the top post to "subvi terminal name different from control name".
I was having this issue specifically using I/O VISA resource controls. I double-checked that the caption names were blank and even tried making them identical to the label names to no avail. What finally worked for me was changing the "Description and Tip" for the Control in the subVI, and changing the Tip to match the control's label.
