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gcoffman2

License Management feature request.

Status: New Submitted by Member on 09-11-2013 05:38 PM Comment

Here at the University I work at we use a large number of license management software (mainly flexlm).  This past semester I installed a new license management service that would be used to serve licenses to multiple labs in multiple buildings across campus.  Unfortunately after installing it and deploying it to a large number of machines I realized that my Labview license manager had stopped working because both processes were trying to use the default port of 27000.  At this point in time my only option was to change the port on the Labview license manager to a new port (in this case 27006).  Unfortunately due to the current nature of Labview I now have to visit 100+ machines in my building and elsewhere and point them to <SERVER_NAME>:27006.  

 

A peer here had a similar issue with the Autodesk software Autocad, which runs on a similar license manager.  However, Autocad checks a range of ports automatically if their license server isn’t available on the default port.  It would be nice if Labview would do the same.  That is, check port 27000 for a license server, if not found, check 27001…up to 27009 then store the port in the software.  Because of this, we do not have to tell Autocad which port the license server is on and if it changes, nothing needs to be done.

 

What I am suggesting is that users not be required to point to a given port if the default is not used.  Instead, the Labview client look at 27000 on a given server, if not found, it looks to 27001, this continues up to a maximum of say 27009.   

 

Another potential fix for such issues would be to have a registry key that can be updated through group policy.  This existed in Windows XP but in Windows 7 this key was removed an instead an .ini files used.

 

Thank You,

Garret Coffman

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PatMcHargue

Where do you post for problems using NI-MAX?

Status: New Submitted by Member on 09-06-2013 12:01 PM Comment

Where do you post for problems using NI-MAX?

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PatMcHargue

Is this where to discuss problems connecting a PXI-1033 using NI-MAX?

Status: New Submitted by Member on 09-06-2013 12:00 PM 6 Comment

Using NI-MAX to find a PXI-1033 with a single NI PXI 4462 in slot2, I get the following problems,

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FTI_Newton

MAX: Create Global Virtual Channels with Internal Physical channels

Status: New Submitted by Member on 08-21-2013 07:45 AM Comment

Title pretty much says it all. I can create them programmatically,why not with a configuration?

 

Workaround: create the channel programmatically and save it to the configuration.Very inconvenient. 

 

<1% Use case? Perhaps. 

 

I can display it in MAX and it shows the internal channel. It's not like it's hidden from anyone. Being able to select internal channels from a dropdown, just like a Channel Control in LabVIEW, would be entirely logical and consistent. Default behaviour could be external channels, with filter checkboxes just like the aforementioned control.

 

 

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cfoe

Measurement & Automation Explorer behaviour

Status: New Submitted by Member on 08-20-2013 04:31 AM 3 Comment

Hello NI guys,

 

I want to know when NI will develop a better software than MAX, each new release is more unstable than the previous one.

With the release 5.1.0f0, each MAX execution starts or stops by a crash. It's totaly unusable.

I want to change the name, it hangs !

I want to see the boards on the target, it hangs !

......

 

I don't know why it hangs, I can use a computer with only NI Products and nothing else, it will hang on each time.

I'M NOT ALONE IN THIS CASE !

 

Please hurry up and develop a new software to setup the target !!!!

 

Best Regards

 

CFOE

 

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Mathieu_R.

VeriStand : Embedded Data Logger : Configurable timestamp format string for file name

Status: New Submitted by Active Participant on 08-14-2013 04:58 AM Comment

The custom Device allows to include in the name of generated files a timestamp, with this format: %<%I_%M_%S_%p_%d_%m_%y>T

 

Today, my customer prefer something like %<Y%m%d_%H%M%S>
Tomorrow? I don't know.

 

Having a format string configurable from System Exlorer would be really convenient.

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manu.NET

WorkSpace screen object : Add a way to control stimulis from screen ...

Status: New Submitted by Active Participant on 07-11-2013 08:07 AM 1 Comment

Hello,

 

It would be nice to be able to control the stimulis from a workspace screen.

 

It would be nice to had a control like this ...

 

 

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The stimulus list could be filled according to the content of a Project directory. (Project Root / Stimulis )

 

Thanks.

 

Manu.net

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manu.NET

VeriStand Workspace screen object : Add controls to handle Procedures ...

Status: New Submitted by Active Participant on 07-10-2013 02:17 PM Comment

Hello,

 

As the Idea : Controls for macros , it would be nice to add screen controls in order to handle with procedures !

 

For the moment, VeriStand RT procedures are only launched using alarms !

 

It could be usefull to be able to launch or stop procedures using screen objects. (Like the Model controller !)

 

ProcedureObjects.png

 

Manu.net

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manu.NET

VeriStand workspace screen objects : Add controls objects to handle macros ...

Status: New Submitted by Active Participant on 07-10-2013 02:08 PM 1 Comment

Hello,

 

It would be nice to add some controls in VeriStand workspace screen objects in order to handle macros.

 

  • A control to be abble to Start / stop a Macro
  • A control to be abble to record a macro

 

The two controls could be linked to a combobox which could list the content of a "Macros" directory, located under the project root.

 

  • A button to start a macro could also be usefull (With a label and linked to a project macro)

These controls could be helpfull when you want to build a simple screen, for users without big knoledges about VeriStand.

 

MacroObjects.png

 

Manu.net.

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PelleS

Simplified Device Drivers Installer

Status: New Submitted by Active Participant on 07-04-2013 10:09 AM 2 Comment

The current Device Driver Installer dialog is not obvious to use. First of all you have to figure out which drivers that you need for your products and then you would probably prefer to remove other unnecessary drivers. However, this is a tedious process with a lot of dependencies. 

I have seen many people just installing everything (with its drawbacks) to be safe, eventhough they only needed the NI RIO driver.

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I'd like to see a more user friendly dialog where drivers are automatically selected.


My suggestion is that the user instead filters out the drivers on a product level like this:

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Let say you choose Modular Instruments. Then next page could let you filter on what type of instrument you have; Scopes, FlexRIO, DMMs, RF, Switching etc...

 

One of the buttons in the bottom would be something like "Add more products?" so you could iterate this process and finally all needed drivers would be filtered out.

 

What do you think?

/Pelle - NI Sweden

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JÞB

Allow Device Monitor hooks for all USB Devices

Status: New Submitted by Knight of NI on 05-16-2013 10:17 AM Comment

Yes, Its very convienient to automatically rename Aliases for USB Devices.  This work great for DAQmx but is not currently possible for the USB 568x.  as seen here

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h_yong

Make the stimulus profile message box prompt actually return the text string for programmatic use

Status: New Submitted by Active Participant on 05-08-2013 05:01 PM Comment

Currently the stimulus profile message box prompt allows user text input, but the user text isn't usable anywhere. I'd like to the text to be returned for use in the profiles/sequences. Thank you.

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h_yong

Stimulus profile UUT dialog prompt enhancement

Status: New Submitted by Active Participant on 05-08-2013 11:53 AM 1 Comment

I'd like to be able to customize the UUT dialog prompt that comes up when the stimulus profile starts. For example, I'd like to be able to see my most recent entries or have them saved in a pulldown for easy repeated access. Thanks.

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h_yong

Subsequences of stimulus profiles should be able to access system definition channels directly

Status: New Submitted by Active Participant on 04-27-2013 02:43 AM 2 Comment

Say I have profileA which calls sequenceB which calls sequenceC. sequenceC needs to access UserChannelX defined in the system definition. Currently, the only way to do so, I believe, is to pass UserChannelX into sequenceC as a parameter which means it needs to be defined as a parameter in sequenceB as well, even if it's not used in sequenceB. This greatly increases the number of arguments of a sequence which may never be used but is necessary in order to give the lowest sequence access to system definition channels. It seems like we should make sytem definition channels directly available at any subsequence level (sort of like how global variables can be referenced anywhere). Thank you.

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h_yong

Handle strings in stimulus profile editor

Status: New Submitted by Active Participant on 04-27-2013 02:31 AM Comment

It'd be great to be able to convert between strings and numbers in the stimulus profile editor. This way we can easily create and use multiple variables that are like:

User1Var, User2Var, User3Var, ..., UserNVar

Also, if we have those channels defined in the system definition, then we could right to multiple variables via parameters in one for loop by incrementing a loop counter. Thanks.

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h_yong

Sequences return arrays

Status: New Submitted by Active Participant on 04-27-2013 02:24 AM Comment

Because we use sequences as function calls, it'd be great if they could return multiple variables or return arrays.

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streetman

Veristand Stimulus Editor:Global or Array Variable

Status: New Submitted by Member on 04-26-2013 02:22 PM Comment

I have hundreds of signals and I want to be able to set a values to them all at once without listing each one individually in every sequence. How do I write to many signals at once?  Is there away to assign all the signals to one variable or array of some type and just write to that variable?  I did not see such mechanism and NI support says nothing similar exists.  Maybe this should be considered.

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Redacted

MAX - Allow wildcards for batch renaming channels in tasks

Status: New Submitted by Member on 04-16-2013 02:57 PM 2 Comment

NI-DAQmx Tasks can frequently have dozens of channels, sometimes hundreds.  Renaming each channel can prove tedious when the format needs to be more complex than rootname_#, indexed from zero.

 

This change will allow developers to batch rename channels in a more flexible format, saving task setup time.

 

This idea includes:

1. Using rootname as it is now, allowing for all channels to have a common base name

2. Creating wildcards for naming channels.  Each channel would then have the base name, a changeable separator character if specified, and an incremented number or character(s) specified by the wildcard.  Examples include:

a. Current_[001] = Current_001, Current_002, Current_003...

b. Temp [AA] = Temp AA, Temp AB, Temp AC, ..., Temp BA, etc.

c. [05]_Reactor = 05_Reactor, 06_Reactor, 07_Reactor, etc.

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Tori.M

Download Option for Measurement and Automation Explorer

Status: New Submitted by Member on 04-15-2013 09:39 AM 2 Comment

In simple, to have a way of downloading different versions of MAX from ni.com without having to download drivers.

This would be useful if problems with MAX arise whereby it needs repairing or even if a specific version of MAX is required.

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freighTrain

MAX - Identify Functionality of Detected NI Hardware

Status: New Submitted by on 03-28-2013 01:55 PM 2 Comment

A piece of feedback received from a regional seminar:

It would be great if MAX could tell you what different modules are used for (e.g. NI 9235 - strain gage module or NI 9213 - thermocouple module) or include information such as what is on the product page for the module. Of course, you could rename the modules as soon as they are detected to make it easier to identify but you would still need to go one by one matching up a number to the measurement type.

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