"Report" versus "File"?

[spaceman_spif]

Just messin' with ya! I do appreciate your time in this.

The refnums are connected to shift registers, and I connected both sides of the shift registers even in the cases that don't do anything with the text file. The open/create/replace is only called once upon starting of a new test. And the input to the open/create is already set to open or create.

I'll post the section of the code where I create and write the first line of the text file. I'm hoping I won't have to post all of my code cuz my program is incredibly sloppy and is over 2 Meg. But this is the first time I've ever used LabView and I've had no training on it so I'm learning it as I go.

[Evan]

Alright now I may understand

When you run that section of code you create 2 files. The first one is from the file dialog and will only have the serial number in it.

The second one I think I confused you on. You are building a path to a file in your temporary directory. So... Check your temp directory and you will have a file named your serial number with no extension. That is the file that all the data is written to. So here is how I would change it.

I added a file dialog and I use that path in your open/create/replace.

[spaceman_spif]

Yup, looks like I copied your code a little too closely and threw in the temp folder. It was a late night. Sure enough, the data was in another temporary folder. I fixed it like you showed and it worked!

You added the "File dialog" tool to solve that problem. What is that tool doing that the "Open/create/replace" tool wasn't already doing before?

And one more question. In my first sample you'll notice I have a ring called "Switch Setting". I would like to grab the label from that ring and send that as a string into my text file. You can see I used the property node for that ring and used the property "UnitLabel.text" but that doesn't send out the label. What property should I use? Or is that the right property and I just have something else not set up correctly?

[Evan]

You are right, there is no need for the file dialog, you can remove it and the Open/Create/Replace will do the same thing. If you look in the code for Open/Create/Replace there is actually the file dialog VI in it.

As far as how to get the label I assume you mean the text that is displayed in the ring, not the label. Technically the label is "Switch Setting" and you could get it using the Label>>Text property.

To get the text of the displayed item though you need to use the Strings[] property. This returns an array of all the stings. You then use Index Array and wire in the rings value, to get the string you want.

[spaceman_spif]

It didn't work right for me unless I kept the "File dialog" tool in place. Oh well, as long as it works I don't care at this point! And the text inside the ring was what I wanted and your code worked.

Thanks for all your help!

[Evan]

No problem.