NI TestStand Idea Exchange

Hi,

I suggest being able to group steps in a sequence:

Steps that are grouped should in interactive mode be forced to be handled together, e.g. "Run selected steps" would always select all the steps in the group. This way you could re-use certain steps multiple times down the sequence without allowing such steps to be executed by themselves (or the opposite, make sure certain steps were never executed without surrounding safeguards).

Today we'd usually enclose such must-work-together steps inside sub-sequences, but that solution does not safeguard against selecting a single step within that sub-sequence for execution by itself, and sometimes putting steps in a sub-sequence is non-optimal (one such case is when you have disabled tracing into subsequences, but this particular set of steps you'd like to have tracing on - I know there are ways to go about this, but these are cumbersome and non-trivial to spot when editing the sequence).

I wouldn't add any extra configuration options to a group, it should simply be a group/ungroup thing - all settings still being on a per step basis.

The use cases for a group could be expanded into making it easier to select a co-working set of steps for copying and pasting, it would be a good way to document co-working steps and so on.

Cheers,

Steen

Even though we already have an About box for TestStand, it would also be nice to have one for the active TestSequence file as well. The Help menu would have a new item called "About MySequenceFile ...".

MySequenceFile About box splash screen:

The information in this screen should be loaded directly from a single FileGlobal string whenever a sequence file is made active. This can probably be done already by those that know how, but it should be already part of TestStand by default.

Eugene

A TestStand configuration wizard

I would like to see a TestStand configuration wizard that would walk a developer through a checklist of all of the most important configuration settings and generate recommended changes.

It is best for a developer to be already familiar with Best Practices as in the following link:

Best Practices for Improving NI TestStand System Performance

http://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/tut/p/id/7559

However, it would also be nice to have assistance in recording WHY certain choices are made as shown in this image:

Eugene

Hola

Estoy haciendo un proyecto, que basicamente son rutas o accesos directos a URLs en linea

el detalle es que, me gustaria que en mi programa pudiera modificar los URL cuando yo quiera, aun estando ejecutandose el programa

esto, porque si llegase a cambiar el link al que me quiero dirigir, lo pueda cambiar desde el el mismo exe sin necesidad de volver a hacer el programa

NOTA: los URL los tengo ya registrados en el bloque de diagramas

Saludos.