Abort Command

[SHentchel]

This should be fairly straight forward, but I have some VIs in my test sequence that come up as dialogs/pop-ups. The user can close these dialogs, but I want the test sequence to abort if the user does this.  I have panel close setup as an event in the sequence that return a boolean value as TRUE.  I want this trigger a manual abort in the test sequence, prefearable as a Post-Expression.

[CharlieRodway]

Hi,

You can use the Abort() Method to abort the execution, by inserting into the Post-Expression like this:

Step.Result.PassFail == False ? {RunState.Execution.Abort()} : {}

(You can change the "Step.Result.PassFail == False" for a boolean check on your returned value, if you so wish)

Regards,

[~jiggawax~]

I recommend using Terminate instead of Abort.  Abort will kill everything and immediately exit, including the Process Model.  Terminate will run your cleanup routine.

My 2 cents,

[CharlieRodway · Accepted solution]

I agree with Jigg,  I'd prefer Terminate as it works through the cleanups turning everything off nicely.

You can find a summary here: Terminating and Aborting Executions

If you still want to terminate via your Step Post-Expression, you could use:

Step.Result.PassFail == False ? {RunState.Execution.Terminate()} : {}

I hope this helps,

[SHentchel]

I used:

RunState.Execution.Terminate()

 did exactly what we needed. Thank you for you both for your help.

[CharlieRodway]

Spoiler

No problem - glad I could help!

[warren_scott]

A little more information if you end up needing it later down the road.

You will likely need to do a RunState.Exection.InInteractiveMode? and then call Runstate.Execution.TerminateInteractiveExection or RunState.Execution.Terminate

If your users never do interactive executions, then you can ignore this.