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I am also a Keysight IO libs user and was disappointed to find NI-MAX does not have the ability to add instruments manually? (Instruments are populated via scan only.) I am trying to quickly communicate with an instrument without scanning and resetting older equipment.

I realize this is a smallish use case, but I am posting here for future interweb queriers.

I have several functional, yet discontinued, HP8970B Noise Figure Meters that preset whenever NI-MAX performs a 'scan for instruments' or when I attempt a 'communicate with instrument' on them. Using IO Trace, I found the culprit is 'ibclr'.

Given this instrument predates SCPI, it does not understand '*idn?', and will reply with an error code. That is fine, but presetting is not. This clears my calibration and other settings. 😞

It would be very good if the DSC llb will be reentrant (vi property -> shared clone reentrant execution).

It's no problem if I work with 50 citadel databases in parallel from executable files. But if I do it from one exe (with reentrant VI that work with citadel) then it works very slowly and very often with critical memory errors... And 50 exe files is not a good solution any way.

It should be interesting to can make deploy using command line for automatize the process without to do many clicks with mouse in RAD.

Would it be possible to access the settings found in the following dialog box without try to get the dialogue to reappear?

 

 

Currently if we accidentally set it to "Always Send" it looks like we don't have a good way to stopping this if we can't get the dialogue to reappear.

 

A current work around is to disable NIER reporting found in the article below but it seems like we should be able to reset the flag found in this dialouge more easliy.

 

How do I disable NI Error Reporting (NIER)? - http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/368F508D3FAE0242862578D400770616

OK, I admit that I find keyboards a useful input device. And I like to keep my fingers on the keys instead of switching back and forth to the mouse.

 

This said, I should appreciate when I can use the <tab> key to navigate through dialogs. Such as the scaling dialog in MAX: If I mouse click into unscaled max, I can tab my way through unscaled min - scaled max, scaled min. But -Lord forbid! - not into scaled unit! why not? wouldn't this be the most natural dialog box behaviour? To be able to tab through all fields of interest? Given that LV has a great tool to select and organize tabbing behaviour of user interfaces - why have all MAX dialogs escaped this small improvement ever since (as far as my knowledge goes back to MAX  1.0)

Please give some programmer this half an hour and let him improve this detail.

Thank you

Michael

It would be really nice to have the ability to create groupings for the Remote Systems in MAX.  Below is the list of my current targets.  While I'm sure there are many people that have a longer lists of targets, I find this list a little bit unmanagable already.  Additionally, we are either planning or working on projects that will about double this list.

 

Please add the ability to group the remote systems so that they can be managed in their own tree (or somthing similar)

 

 

 

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right now, if I invoke nivlm.exe /exportClientPermissions C:\foo\bar.txt, I don't get any information about disconnected licenses.

It would be great if it had a column for disconnected license expiration date associated with each item (that would be empty/null if no disconnected license was assigned). 

Would also be helpful if there was also information about home use licenses grated against a user.

 

 

Dear NI R&D folks.

 

It is wrong the time zone for Caracas at the Time Settings configuration (MAX 14.0) . Since december 30, 2007 has been changed to -4.5 UTC. I will appreciate if you correct this bug in future LabVIEW versions.

Best regards.

 

Jesús Hidalgo.

 

 

Hello,

 

I got a cDAQ 9184 connected to a PC running Vision Builder. The IO-Channels on the 9184 are connected via global virtual DAQmx channels. These channels are available on Vision Builder.

 

When power is cycled on the 9184, Vision Builder does not reconnect to it. You have to close and restart Vision Builder to get it running again.

 

My Wish is that Vision Builder is able to reconnect automatically.

 

Best regards,

 

Klaus

 

It is always a pain finding new hardware in NI MAX.  You never know the IP Address.  It would be great if MAX had the capability to find hardware and configure network settings via ethernet Data-link layer 2.  You should be able to identify all NI hardware with your common vendor MAC prefix and communicate network settings.  I have seen other companies use this to find and configure their hardware on the network regardless of the ethernet adapter configuration.  

I have no idea about how to trigger "Bad Status Alarm" of SV without binding any IO.I have no idea about how to set the quality of IO Servers Output item, too.

So I think it is good if SV has "Update Timeout Alarm".

 

The size of the NI-488.2 driver files is quite large. I have an inquiry from a customer about the possibility of having a driver that just contains the driver to be recognised by the computer, without all the compatibility files for programs such as C++, Visual Basic etc. 

 

For certain customers, there is alot of overhead associated with downloading a file the size of the current NI-488.2 driver, when the compatibility for different environments is not always necessary. 

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

The various Compact DAQ digital IO modules available can be either correlated or not.

 

However, there is no information regarding this in the various device specifications.

 

The information is required because a correlated device is required to access the chassis counters.

 

A comparison table for correlated devices does exist on NI.com (see link below) but the user has to search for it.  It would be far more useful if it were included in the device documentation and specifications along with a supporting information.

 

http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/3114EE73A39F1300862578BE0059A895

When using the Read/Write Variables to INI File step in VBAI and not selecting the Ethernet option the code that is generated still includes this step and therefore requires the Ethernet IP toolkit to run the code.  I suggest that when the box is uncheck then the generated code not require this toolkit becuase the VIs are going unused.  

Ship VBAI or VDM with the OCR B standard file the way that VBAI ships with OCR A.

It would be nice to provide a way to get diagnostic information regarding any potential HW issues that may be apparent with the Timing and Sync modules. Currently the only method for getting diagnostic information is through the use of the LEDs (active LED, and Access LED), or through external connections to other measurement equipment. The addition of this feature will better assist troubleshooting defective timing modules.

 

 

Frank,