TAB functionality in Report Generation doesn't work.

[Miles]

Inserting TABS either by putting in a string or concatenating with the TAB constant doesn't seem to work. In the HTML file created by "Example HTML Report.vi" there are supposed to be two tabs in the text but they don't seem to be there. I'm trying to perodically insert data into tab delimited columns in a report. I'm using LabView 6i on Win2000.

[Jeremy Braden]

It looks like we made a mistake with the example program. I rarely write in HTML, and I could not find a standard tag for tab. I recommend using 5   instead.

Jeremy Braden
National Instruments

[Miles]

I don't know much about HTML but I haven't found a tag for TAB by looking at a few WEB sites. And yet..there's a "Set Report Tab Width.vi" in the Report Generation sub-pallette. The "Append Report Text.vi" has a sub-vi called "HTML Report Token Converter.vi". When it gets the tag it sends a
, which I believe is a HTML line break. Not exactly equivalent to a TAB as far as I can see. If you can't send a TAB to HTML why set the TAB Width? So it seems the problem isn't with the example it's with the implementation of the Report Generation sub-pallette. Maybe the Report Generation utilities were developed for an older version of HTML and need to be updated. When I "View Source" on the HTML document that's being created, I get "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0
Transitional//

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Don't know if this will help or not.