NI TestStand Idea Exchange

Hello,

It would be nice to VIEW errors which occurs in the process Model or callbacks using a special dedicated window.

Recently, i have send updates to one of my customers, using FTP transfert.

The updates consists of processModel updates, dotNet assemblies ...

During the FTP upload by my final customer, the dotNet assemblies were marked, by windows 7, as "Bloqued" . (For security reasons ...)

These assemblies were called in my process model.

When the final user tryed to launch his application (Operator interface), nothing occurs ! The dotNet assemblies calls fell in error, but without any message. I had to investigate using debugging tools to find out the problem.

It should be nice, in case of "anormal errors" in process model calls, or in callbacks (like frontend callbacks) to launch an error window to view this kind of errors.

You may say, you should have test the errors and handle them correctlty ... and you're certainly right !

But i get a look to the default processModels provided with TestStand ... and they are coded as i do !!!!

So even with the 'default process model', if an internal dotNet error occurs (missing sub assemblies, no more ressources ... ) the same kind of anormal behaviour could occured !

So having the way to view process Model, or hidden callbacks errors will perhaps be interesting ! 

Thanks a lot.

Manu.

Hello,

It would be nice to be abble to define the report file name "using tags". 

For the moment the Report name is created automatically. You can't easily change the order of the filed you want to see in the filename.

You can only modify the date/time position.

I would like to see something like this :

Reportname = [%T<YYYY_mm_DD HH_MM_SS>]_[TestSocket]_[UUT].txt

Thanks.

PS : I am using TestStand 2012 ... perhaps this already exists in TS 2013 ?

Manu.

Could R&D develop an option to make the standard message pop up automatically go away after a set period of time?  I understand that the message pop up is typically used to receive input from the user/operator, but other times I would just like to notify the operator of pertinent information and then have it go away.  It would be nice if there were a checkbox to enable this feature and then a text box where I could enter the time in seconds I would like the pop up displayed.

Regards,

Shawn S.

Support use of relative path for image file pathname in message popup step options.

Relative paths make reuse and maintanence easier for me.

Image file pathnames are the only part of my code that breaks when I rename my project directory.

In our Company also hardware developer creates testsequences in teststand, so it would be nice, if there could be a small user interface to configure the values of the parameters for a subsequence.
The solution could be, if they drag and drop a sequence into their main testsequence, a user interface pops up to configure the parameters for this subsequence. So it would be possible to restrict the values with a drop down menu or Radio Buttons or to give some graphical help to choose the right values.

Or maybe i could create something similar to the IVI sequences, where i can click on a button and a small editor window is opened.

It will be good if a "Extract" sequence option present: When we select more than one steps in a sequence, show this option. Once you select extract option, new sequence should be created within the .seq file, and automatically insert a step "Sequence Call" which calls the new sequence.