From Friday, April 19th (11:00 PM CDT) through Saturday, April 20th (2:00 PM CDT), 2024, ni.com will undergo system upgrades that may result in temporary service interruption.

We appreciate your patience as we improve our online experience.

Home Community Idea Exchange TestStand Ideas

NI TestStand Idea Exchange

Community Browser
Top Authors
View All
cancel
Turn on suggestions
Auto-suggest helps you quickly narrow down your search results by suggesting possible matches as you type.
Showing results for 
Search instead for 
Did you mean: 
Post an idea
15 Kudos
Elaine_R.

Date() / time() functions could allow for different desired formats as a parameter rather than returning N local variables

Status: New Submitted by Active Participant on 11-21-2013 08:35 AM 1 Comment

currently the behavior of the date function is (1) get a short ("MM/DD/YYYY") or long form date string ("Weekday, Month D, YYYY")with nice easy boolean input, (2) pass it N local variables to get all the discrete parts and assemble it myself with a bit of STR() and concatenation.

 

could we create a permutation on this date() function, (does one already exist) so that I can just pass it a %<> syntax string and have it format the current date to my desired format?

 

specifically, I'm looking for a non painful way of building a "YYYY-MM-DD" style string for a report (or even just DD/MM/YYY) without having to lug around 8 locals and a lengthly expression, or call into a LV VI. 

 

We have basic string format symbols available for the STR and VAL functions, why not for date? if anything passing this 1 parameter might save alot of folks creating a bunch of locals because they can just ask for the time item they want directly, and then VAL() the output text to get the numeric data if they need it?

 

it'd be awesome if the function supported standard DB format tags such as (http://www.w3schools.com/sql/func_date_format.asp) or failing that, was consistent with what LabVIEW's time format strings were.

 

Just a thought. Has anyone worked around this in a reasonable way?

 

--Elaine R.

4 Kudos
nclark

Add LabVIEW Class Objects in Get Property Value.vi and Set Property Value.vi

Status: New Submitted by Member on 12-12-2019 03:15 PM 1 Comment

TestStand's LabVIEW interface could benefit by being able to programmatically get and set LabVIEW Class Objects using the Get Property Value.vi and the Set Property Value.vi.

 

After much toil with this subject, I've finally come to the conclusion that I cannot get a LabVIEW Class Object from TestStand using LabVIEW. I've tried both the Get Property Value.vi and a combination of property and invoke nodes to no avail.

 

Capture.PNG

View All (4)
17 Kudos
mjwalla

LV Primitives in TS

Status: New Submitted by Member on 11-06-2012 06:31 PM 9 Comment

How cool would it be to sequence any LabVIEW VI in TestStand? I realize one could make a wrapper around any VI, but that adds not only a layer of complexity, but customization. I am a staunch follower of the KISS philosophy, and custom wrappers are not so simple; well, at least not as simple as no wrapper at all ; )

2 Kudos
MaximeR

Add plugin to Quick Drop for TestStand

Status: New Submitted by Active Participant on 05-24-2021 10:49 AM 2 Comment

When you devevlop in TestStand, you may have some tools that you can use to automate some developments actions but it's not easy to share of use it in TestStand.

 

My best way is to customize my Tools menu but it's not user friendly.

Since you introduce the Quickdrop in TS2019, can we imainge that you can support addon to have access more easily to developpers tools ?

1 Kudos
RustyStrings

Make watch expressions savable and loadable

Status: New Submitted by Member on 05-13-2022 05:12 AM Comment

I was debugging on a test station and had several watch expressions.

When I came in this morning they were all gone, someone else used that station and deleted them.

 

I think it would be good to be able to save the expressions in a file and be able to load them.

An additional feature would be the ability to load them from a sequence step.

5 Kudos
warren_scott

add Sequence File Version information to Sequence Analyzer reports

Status: New Submitted by Active Participant on 07-20-2018 11:18 AM Comment

For TestStand Sequence Analyzer, all the results information/reports include status, user, computer, file, time and results.  However there's nothing to link to what version of the sequence file you actually analyzed (it just has the path to the file analyzed).  It would be very helpful for compliance tracking if the results/reports also included the sequence file version. 

I can add my own test to log this as information, but it would probably be helpful to others if it was included as part of the results header information.

View All (1)
14 Kudos
alex_bauer

Option to store an independent TestStand configuration with workspace

Status: Completed Submitted by Member on 06-29-2012 04:51 AM 2 Comment

It would be great to have the ability to create an independent TestStand configuration that is valid in a workspace context. That would allow project specific search directories, StationGlobals an several other configuration items you normally don't want to share across projects on the same test station.

15 Kudos
ChrisHawk

Make Output panel available as UI ActiveX Control

Status: New Submitted by Member on 08-19-2011 04:03 AM 2 Comment

The output messages are a good way of sending status messages from the test solution to the end user.  However the control is not available as one of the controls that can be added to user interfaces.

OutputMessage.jpg

Can this control be made available to be quickly added to a UI and linked to the execution view manager.

Also adding some kind of API interface to be able to capture these messages to a log file would remove the need to implement any custom logging mechanisms.  If possible ability to open multiple file logs within the engine at the same time with each file given some kind of filter rules (for example Severity=”error” or ExecutionId=5).  If logs had to be attributed to an execution ID then they could automatically be closed when the execution ended, otherwise the user would have to manually close each file which could get forgotten and TestStand end up with lots of open file references.

14 Kudos
RayFarmer

Find / Replace Dialog popup the Variable Dialog to auto complete names

Status: New Submitted by Trusted Enthusiast on 11-02-2011 11:15 AM Comment

It would be nice when entering in the Find: control to beable to pop open the Variable dialog (as in the expression editor) to select variable names. It could be linked to the Limit Search to: control. Like wise on the Replace control when that window appears. 

 

I know you have that drop down facility on this control but that only remembers what you have previously entered.

 

Find_Replace.png

View All (1)
10 Kudos
Elaine_R.

Improve Sequence Analyzer CommandLine to allow for automatic report generation

Status: Completed Submitted by Active Participant on 04-18-2014 07:13 AM 3 Comment

Right now it appears the sequence analyzer has no really effective automation options?

 

I can use the command line to launch the Sequence Analyzer, but I really want to run this puppy headlessly against a codebase every 24 hours similar to how VI Analyzer works.  Ideally, yes, I'd love a full API, but for the short term, would it be possible to expand the command line?

 

what we have currently is:

AnalyzerApp.exe "C:\My Documents\MyProject.tsaproj"  to get the window open with the right project in it.

what would be seriously helpful would be to add: some sort of "-Run -Report "C:\Reports\MyProjectReport.xml""  additional tags?

 

In general I'd love for the tool to (1) launch, (2) run project, (3) save off file, and (4) close without further nagging on the part of a user.

 

 Extra kudos would be given if it could generate a standard-out message with some quick stats, if someone was feeling really gung-ho. Perhaps a # of rules, run and # of errors & warnings found?  I can just as easily rake the xml output, so these aren't required, but I am in dire need of a way to automatically _get_ that xml output.

 

If the tool already does these tasks than please feel free to say so?  I've combed the help in the versions I have installed, and so far have come up with nothing. I'm currently shopping around for a thin ui-robot to get the job done...

 

9 Kudos
Hejc_Tomas

Add HTML capability to Requirements Gateway

Status: New Submitted by Member on 10-29-2013 03:03 AM Comment

I’m trying to work with the tool Requirement Gateway. I started with some examples which are contained in install packet of this tool. I need to connect Gateway with HTML document and manage coverage with another HTML document. I managed to get from HTML document load the list of requirements to Gateway tool. If I tried to open the particular requirement from Gateway than the HTML document was opened on first page always. I can’t set the Gateway for opening the HTML document on particular place, when is described requirement.

 

My point of view is make some modification for better connection Gateway tool with internet browser.

8 Kudos
fazekasc

Create a way to use the find/replace tool to select actual steps in the TestStand sequence editor instead of just listing matching text values in the find window

Status: New Submitted by Member on 02-10-2014 02:00 PM 5 Comment
TestStand already has an awesome tool to change multiple steps at one time, but you have to select all of those steps first by clicking on them with the mouse and using the shift and ctrl click methods.  This works fine for a few steps here and there, but when you have 1000 steps you need to select that are scattered among 1500 other steps, it turns into a two day project.
 
I'd like to see something else that's different than the find/replace window that gives you the option to select and highlight the steps you just searched for in the sequence editor.  It could be a checkbox in the find/replace tool window that gives you the option to either search for the text and display the text matches in that window, or to select the actual steps in TestStand.
 
I just had this problem, and ended up creating some ActiveX code to automatically blast through my sequence and change hundreds of NumericLimitTest step types to Action step types.  That example code was attached to that thread.
View All (5)
7 Kudos
Pete.Dunc

TestStand Taskbar Jump List

Status: New Submitted by Active Participant on 04-18-2014 05:50 AM 1 Comment

It would be very handy to have a jump list of recent/pinned files for TestStand.  This could also include simple tasks like creating a new sequence file.

 

Current:

 

Current TS.png

 

Proposed:

 

Proposed TS.png

2 Kudos
magnux

Teststand Execution Profiler - add loaded DLL version info

Status: New Submitted by Member on 10-14-2019 03:13 AM 2 Comment

When profiling an sequence, it's would be useful if also the version of .NET DLL that was loaded/unloaded could be displayed in the report in a new column next to Item Name. I have not found a way to do do this. I think this would be helpful to be able to compare performance of different versions of DLL:s, and also when troubleshooting sequences (e.g. when adding search directories and wrong version of a DLL is used by mistake).

 

Currently the only way I found to see version loaded was using tools like Visual Studio or Process Explorer, but that's run time, requiring breakpoints etc - the above approach would provide an better overview of the execution, and is more convenient.

 

 profiling.png

1 Kudos
MaximeR

Add ability to install and manage addons for TestStand

Status: New Submitted by Active Participant on 05-24-2021 10:43 AM Comment

In LabVIEW, we have a lot of tools to help user to develop more efficiently and almost all of them are handle with VIPM.

 

Can we expect to have something similar from NI for TestStand ?

 

Best regards

8 Kudos
warren_scott

add check for obsolete methods/properties/events to Sequence Analyzer

Status: New Submitted by Active Participant on 06-29-2012 01:00 PM 2 Comment

I know that I can write my own sequence analyzer tasks, but I think this one should be default out-of-the-box from NI:

 

Add a sequence analyzer warning task that checks for usage of obsolete methods / properties / events.  This way we can use sequence analyzer to help find them and make our code easier to upgrade with future versions of TS

 

Otherwise, trying to find all the obsolete "stuff" is REALLY REALLY annoying -- a lot of searching

 

obsoleteAnalysis.png

7 Kudos
Norbert_B

Sequence File Documentation Tool: New file format XML

Status: New Submitted by Proven Zealot on 03-05-2013 08:18 AM Comment

The Sequence File Documentation Tool allows you to create documentation in the file formats HTML and text.

 

It would be nice if it could also create XML based documentation similar to report generation. Selecting a style sheet will ensure that the XML file is presented in a certain way using a browser.

 

Norbert

5 Kudos
tardis4500

Unattended automated build for TestStand Deployment Utility

Status: New Submitted by Member on 05-07-2015 06:43 AM Comment

Although BuildTSD allows for builds from the command line, they are still not automatable because someone must be logged in for the run to work. All of our other build tools (Visual Studio, Eclipse, MPLAB, Quartus, NIOS, Matlab, etc.) allow for headless, remote, automated builds which support our move toward continuous integration, continuous deployment, and agile development.

View All (1)
3 Kudos
tcaros

Analzye a Subsequence within the Main Sequence

Status: New Submitted by Member on 11-21-2017 05:51 PM 2 Comment

I would recommend adding a "Right-Click" option for analyzing a "subseuqence" within a main sequence.

Many developers develop a Main Sequence with many Sequences in the Sequences window. Currently it's not possible to select "one" or "a subset" of the sequences to run through the analyzer .

Recommend adding this option to TestStand for selecting "right-clicking" a subsequence and running the analyzer on what is selected rather than ":all " of them.

8 Kudos
icastillejos

Add Step Precondition To Watch View with 1 Click

Status: New Submitted by Member on 06-29-2011 02:02 PM Comment

When you are running an execution and you want to check if a step will execute or not depending on the precondition you have to go to the step, browse to the precondition, copy it and paste it in the Watch View...

 

Wouldn't it be great if you could add your step precondition the the watch view with a single click (like VS "Add Watch")... ideally I'd have another entry in the menu below called "Debug" ot "Watch View" with submenu-items: "Add Precondition to Watch View", "Add Pre-expression to Watch View", "Add Pre-expression to Watch View"

 

ideaxchange.png

 

Vote for me!!!

 

<<- N --.>