Location of StationGlobals variables

[Edmund.M.Williams]

OK, where are the StationGlobals Variables file stored at.  I'm having to copy a Testand Sequence to another PC and now I discover that my StationGlobals are missing...

Who is the wise guy that made StationGlobals part of the Station and not the Sequence?

[catarina · Accepted solution]

Originally, TestStand saves the station global variables in the StationGlobals.ini file in the <TestStand Application Data>\Cfg directory automatically when you close the TestStand Engine.

I can find my Station global variable in <<C:\ProgramData\National Instruments\TestStand 2017 (32-bit)\Cfg>>

I attached related link:https://www.ni.com/docs/en-US/bundle/teststand/page/station-global-variables.html

And as I know, Station Global Variables is not recommended. The reason is that when you move the file to another computer as you do now, you have to move .ini file as well. I would like to ask if you have any reason to use global variables.

Catharina

[Edmund.M.Williams]

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@catarina wrote:

Originally, TestStand saves the station global variables in the StationGlobals.ini file in the <TestStand Application Data>\Cfg directory automatically when you close the TestStand Engine.

I can find my Station global variable in <<C:\ProgramData\National Instruments\TestStand 2017 (32-bit)\Cfg>>

I attached related link:https://www.ni.com/docs/en-US/bundle/teststand/page/station-global-variables.html

And as I know, Station Global Variables is not recommended. The reason is that when you move the file to another computer as you do now, you have to move .ini file as well. I would like to ask if you have any reason to use global variables.

Catharina

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I inherited another Teststand program written by someone else.  So I don't know the reason they were using StationGlobals, all I noticed is when I copied that Teststand Program to another PC the Station Globals variables were missing.  So all I really need to do is copy the StationGlobals.ini file to the new PC's ...\Teststand 2017\... Path and that should fix the problem.