internet toolkit vi "HTML+ Labeled Table.vi" missing

[david_jenkinson]

Hi,

We have a vi that we use, "HTML+ Labeled Table.vi". It basically takes a labview table and outputs the correct syntax to create an HTML table.  After installing the 2012 diskset, which was supposed to include the internet toolkit, I get a broken vi where this vi is called, due to it being missing.  I called in a ticket about this.  I was directed to download the depricated internet toolkit and install it. Problem solved.  But I got the gist this was going to be tagged as an issue and fixed in future installers.  Diskset 2013 has the same problem however.

This would not be an issue, if it werent' for the fact that it seems the internet toolkit diskset won't install for me on a particular machine.  It is an XP machine.  The installer begins to error about half way through and doesn't go into many specifics, just "package installer failed". 

So I'm wondering, has the functionality that "HTML+ Labeled Table.vi" covers been transferred to some other vi, or has the functionality been removed all together?  I was assured by the engineer on the initial support phone call that NI would not purposely break vi's, that it had to be an unintended omission.  But the latest installer still has the omission.

I have done a search for any vi in the labview package, with "HTML" in then name, nothing seems to replicate this functionality.  Can someone please direct me to where this functionality is?

Thanks

David J.

[Nick-A]

Hi David,

Can you give me a link to the internet toolkit you are trying to install for the 2013 version?  I just want to check which one you are working with and see what the compatibility looks like.

As far as a different VI that works just like this, it appears that most of this functionality for HTML has been added into the Report Generation Toolkit.  Also, there is this example on the NI website:

https://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-5552

Do you have access to the Report Gen Toolkit?  This would be a good place to start.  I was not able to find much data in regards to your specific data, but here is a KB that explains what happened with the Internet Toolkit:

http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/EB34E86CE3AD08D686257A2B005482FD

Nick

[david_jenkinson]

I was given a link at the time of the first support call a couple years ago, I see when you point to the toolkit now it shows this:

http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/EB34E86CE3AD08D686257A2B005482FD

 I have the installer in a directory on our server that I have installed on our machines when we migrated to 2012.  The issue was solve by installing this. So my possible solutions are either replace the functionality in our vis with equivalent, or continue installing the toolkit.  But the latter is an issue on a PC I'm trying to install the toolkit on, get errors.  I could open a ticket on the install issue, but the fact the toolkit is depricated I thought might make that difficult. 

Can you please point me to the specific tool in the report generator that replicates this functionality (output html table from labview table)? 

Thanks

[Nick-A]

Hi David,

Did you have a chance to look at the example I sent you?  That might be one way to go about creating that table.

Also, here is some documentation on the reporting options for the Report Generation Toolkit.  It looks like you can use the express VI or lower level VIs to export an HTML report that has a table in it.

http://www.ni.com/white-paper/13926/en/

Will one of these methods fit into your application to replace the Internet Toolkit VIs?

Nick

[david_jenkinson]

I will need to add one or the other that to my code and evaluate with a few test runs.  It is however a little disconcerting that I need to do this, that this functionality was deleted without a direct drop in replacement, being it originated from NI. 

Thanks for the info,

Dave

[Nick-A]

Hi David,

Sounds good.  Let us know how adding that code to your projects helps.  If you run into any issues, post here and we will try to help you out!

Thanks,

Nick

[david_jenkinson]

Ok.

I'm hoping this is the only vi.  This is just the first problem I ran into.  I'll find out when I get a chance to fix it.  Do you perhaps have a list of any additional internet toolkit (or other) tools that were omitted when the internet toolkit was integrated with the main installer?

And btw one obvious and quick solution I was going to try was saving the actual vi from a machine where I have the internet toolkit installed, but it won't let me, no save option.  It is contained within an llb, so another temptation is to copy off this llb to our source code control tree and use it from there, which brings up the danger of 2 vi's in 2 different places, which figures in to my 1st question.  Did the entire llb in which this vi resides disappear?  Or do the other vi's that are contained within this llb still exist?  If not I feel fairly safe in copying the llb and continue using the tools.

Thanks

[Nick-A]

There is not a list available of VIs that were omitted because the VIs were not directly converted to LabVIEW.  The functionality still exists, but it is not a one-to-one translation.

You should still be able to save the llb and use it in your project.  I would say you should be safe in using that and not worrying about having two VIs in different places.  This should give you all the functionality you need.  If not, post back and let us know!

Nick