NI MAX Custom Scale password protection

[TurbosaurusRex]

I have created NI MAX custom scales to use in a data acquisition system with a cRIO and LabVIEW.  As part of the Quality Management system at my company, I regularly calibrate instrumentation, and update these calibrations as custom scales in NI MAX.  My issue is that these calibrations/custom scales are a very important part of overall data integrity. The concern is multiple test users can gain access to NI MAX and randomly change the custom scales without knowledge of the Quality System manager, thereby compromising data integrity. Perhaps NI could look into allowing password protections of Custom Scales like they password protect the configuration of the cRIO system I am using.  This would help greatly to protect data integrity. Thanks for your consideration.

[Christina_R]

I've passed this feedback to the NI MAX team, but since this is the LabVIEW Idea Exchange, I'm closing this Idea.

[BertMcMahan]

I think this is a good idea. A "workaround" in the meantime is to create the custom scales programmatically, which is what I usually do anyway. You can set Windows permissions to require admin access to modify the config files (or better yet, give the "QA" group write/modify permissions so you don't need an admin).

This protects against mods to ANY config parameters, not just the custom scales, which covers more bases than the MAX solution, but it's not a bad idea nonetheless.