Automated testing

[Dennis_Knutson]

Then add a text box to your front panel and write whatever you want to it. A shift register with a concantanate strings will work.

A lot of what you are asking is pretty basic stuff. Have you seen the available LabVIEW  tutorials and taken the time to go through them?

[cmhand]

I have not gone through the tutorials but I have been playing around with Labview, Im under a time constraint and I have my program pretty much done besides adding this text in, so I figured coming on here would be the fastest way to finish up without going through those long training courses, I will refer to these in the future tho

[cmhand]

Can I use the error out indicator and just place that on my front panel and connect it to the error out of the DAQ assistant ???

[cmhand]

This is what it looks like..if you check like frame 3 and 5 of the case structure I connected an error out to the DAQ assistant that checks IGNITION COLD...except when there should be an error its not displaying anything, is this not the right way to do this???

[Dennis_Knutson]

No it's not because as soon as you go to the next state, you will clear the error because you have nothing wired to it and it will use the default which is no error. What does this have to do with your previous question of getting a status message?

[cmhand]

I set up my VI using the setup that VT suggested which works fine if a test fails at the very end the result button says FAILED. What I want though is that at the end when it says FAILED that it would also say somewhere what failed...such as Ignition Cold, etc...

[Dennis_Knutson]

Then do as I suggested with a string indicator. The error indicator has nothing at all to do whether the test passes or not or the kind of message you want to display.

Actually, I should modify my second sentence. If you get an error, you could also set the fail Boolean and text. It's when you don't get an error (and you shouldn't unless the DAQ hardware fails), that the error cluster is not at all related to pass/fail status.

[Dennis_Knutson]

I would think it would also be pretty obvious that you could build a string array just like the Boolean status array is being built. In each case where a test is done, you just need to create separate strings for pass/fail conditions.

[cmhand]

Can you post a quick pic of what you are saying...it helps in my situation