BD FP Control indicator name change

[richjoh]

There must be a preference setting I'm missing here.  I change the name of an BD Ctrl or Indicator, the FP doesn't take the change.  I go to a newly installed LV ver2020 and name changes stay in sync.

Yes double click will take you to either BD or FP Ctrl but if names are different well this adds confusion.  Anyone else notice this name change issue?

[billko]

Are you sure you're not displaying a caption on one and a label on the other?  Or are we talking about the same VI opened up in different versions of LabVIEW?

[daveTW]

For me this sounds like different Strings in Label and Caption.

Do a Right-Click in FP on the control, hover to "Visible Items", make sure "Label" is checked.

Or select "Properties", on the first Tab you can check Label an Caption.

[paul_cardinale]

• It’s an old bug.  That’s why I avoid changing the name at the BD terminal.  But if you right click on the terminal, go to properties, and change the label there, it seems to always work.

[rolfk]

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@paul_cardinale wrote:

• It’s an old bug.  That’s why I avoid changing the name at the BD terminal.  But if you right click on the terminal, go to properties, and change the label there, it seems to always work.

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Actually the terminal label has never been disconnected from the front panel label for me as far as I can remember. Maybe there was a bug somewhere in the past but that would have to be LabVIEW 5 or 6 times at least.

What does not propagate is when you have property nodes that are implicitly linked to a control. While you can make the label of the property node visible and it normally mirrors the label of the control/indicator, changing the label of a property node does NOT update the label of the FP element.

I have also had VIs in the past where the connection between the property node and front panel element somehow got severed. I could still go from the property node to the front panel element by right clicking on the property node and selecting Find->Control but when doing a Find->Property Nodes from the FP element, it would not find some or all of the connected property nodes anymore.