Can I Save Data from a Remote Front Panel to the Client Computer?"

[sithara]

"I created a VI that saves data to disk, and I created a remote front panel for the VI(using remote front panel labview6.1). When I view and control the front panel remotely in a Web browser on another computer, I want to save the data to a file on that client computer instead of saving it to a file on the server computer. Is this possible?
the server and client are on WAN
how should i go abt this."

[Ben]

I can think of two methods off-hand.

Simple:
Make sure the drive you want to save your data to is mapped to the system serving the application. Use a file dialog to navigate to the drive from which you are doing the viewing and save the file.

More complicated:
The standard web interface will not do the job. Write an executable that can be installed on the machine from which you view the application. This executable should give you the look of the web version but because it is running on the "viewing" machine, it will have access to the disk drives. This is not going to be straight forward.

One more idea:
I can not help with the details on this one but here goes. Modify the app that is the server to create a temp file that is written to an ftp site. A brow
ser could then get at the file.

These are just quick ideas.

Anybody want to comment on these techniques?

Ben

[Alberto]

I think your problem is to know the client name that is accessing your server vi, so that you can embed it on the path name.
If this is right, then you can follow my idea in this previuous post:
http://exchange.ni.com/servlet/ProcessRequest?RHIVEID=101&RPAGEID=137&HOID=5065000000050000008ADA0000&HTHREAD=000055946&UCATEGORY_0=_49_%24_6_&UCATEGORY_S=0

Anyway, if you are planning to upgrade to LV7, then you will make it on the fly. In fact the remote panel feature has been greatly improved with new functionalities.

Good luck,
Alberto

[Liz F]

Please also take a look at the post I made on a different thread (was this your post?)

http://exchange.ni.com/servlet/ProcessRequest?RHIVEID=101&RPAGEID=135&HOID=506500000008000000CF890000&UCATEGORY_0=_51_%24_6_&UCATEGORY_S=0

Thanks!

Liz F