Monitoring items selected my user

[Newguy100]

Hi,

    I am working on a monitoring system where i have 100 or so items that the user can choose from. I want to user to be able to select which items they would like to see or which items they would like to change. How do I go about this? Can this be done using databases?

[Broken_Arrow]

I'm fairly certain we'll need more information to answer your question.

[Newguy100]

Well I am still kind of brainstorming right now but I want to write a labview progam to communicate with an external device. I would like the user to choose what type of information they want such as date, name of device, etc from a list that I will give them. Once the user makes their choice, the program should continuously ask the device for the choices selected by the user and display it to the screen.

[Broken_Arrow]

Still not a lot to go on, but it sounds like a job for "Property Node Man".

But seriously, if you have dozens of inputs, but just want to display some of them, they can be hidden/displayed with Property Nodes. Or, depending on the data types, you can dynamically build arrays or clusters which contain the items the user chooses upon startup.

[Newguy100]

Thanks Richard, I was just looking for a way to contain the items. I've read about databases and thought it might be a way to go, but I will look into arrays and clusters. Again thanks.

[johnsold]

Look at listboxes, too.

Lynn