Break Sequence from New Execution

[acovian]

I need to be able to monitor the temperature and controls fans on the UUT while the I test the UUT and pause the main sequence until the temperature comes back down. I launch a new execution that runs the fan control in a different sequence and I need to pause the main sequence from the fan control sequence. I have found the Excution.Break command but that only pauses the current sequence. Do I need to get a reference to the main sequence object? How would I do that? Is there other options?

[Teds]

I have done something similar to this where I spawn a seperate sequence running in a  'New Execution' that monitors a hardware interlock.  If the interlock is opened, then I terminate the test that is testing the UUT.

To do this I passed in the 'RunState.Execution' object into the sequence (as a parameter ) that monitors the interlock.  I call this Monitor Interlock sequence from my Setup of the Process Model sequence.   Then I call a terminate execution in this module to stop the test.  

It seems in your case, you want to be able to 'break' on the sequence, but maybe in your case you were not using the right Execution object?

Thanks,

PH

[acovian]

How do you pass the RunState.Execution into the sequence as a parameter?

[~jiggawax~]

You would pass in the Sequence Context (RunState.ThisContext) and then use the Execution subproperty of that.

Regards,

[acovian · Accepted solution]

NI support finally got back to me with this answer. It works exactly how I needed. Figured I'd add this for any people looking for a solution to a similar problem.