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Hello,

I have been looking for how to create tags on Labview but I don't seem to find more documentation on how to do so.

I only found this http://www.ni.com/documentation/en/systemlink/latest/manual/skyline-data-services/  which has no examples and those would help a lot.

 

I see some on this forum have access to one example but I have not been able to find it.

Could someone point me in the right direction?

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We ship a couple of examples that you can find using the LabVIEW Example Finder.

 

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Heard about a Skyline DAQ Logger reference design.  Does anyone know where to find it?

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I don't know if I would call it a reference design.  It's just a little project I created for testing and demos, but you are more than welcome to use it as a starting point.

 

https://github.com/joshuaprewitt/skyline-crio-logger

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Interesting example, is NI planning on extending this concept?  I am thinking about something that provides cRIO scan engine IOV binding to skyline tags and evolving the DSM and hypertrend to work with tags instead of NSV's.  From what I understand this may become a reality when historical data services are released in Q2, any comment?

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I'm not exactly sure what you are looking for, but I don't have any immediate plans to build that example into something official.  We are however, working on adding a tag historian and alarm service to SystemLink.

 

I haven't had a chance to play with it, but NI also has a DCAF module for Skyline Tags and I may try to incorporate it into that example.

 

https://github.com/LabVIEW-DCAF/SystemLinkTagModule

 

 

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Which installer are the Skyline VI's and examples part of? I installed LabVIEW 2017, NXG 2.0, System Link server and client, Embedded control and monitoring software suite, but they don't show up.

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Which installer are the Skyline VI's and examples part of? I installed LabVIEW 2017, NXG 2.0, System Link server and client, Embedded control and monitoring software suite, but they don't show up.


Installation order matters in some of these cases.  Try rerunning the SystemLink Client installer.  They install with it.

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that worked, thanks

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viScience - I'd recommend checking out www.ni.com/flexlogger 

 

It's a configuration based datalogger that has a preview feature to broadcast all its channels as Skyline tags.

Joey S.
Senior Product Manager, Software
National Instruments
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