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ATarman

VeriStand Screen Numeric Indicator -> Built-In Averaging & Smoothing

Status: New Submitted by Member on 11-28-2023 10:52 AM Comment

Often times, the values of numeric indicators are changing rapidly and it is necessary to create Calculated Channels with Averaging [Smoothing] functions to make it easier for the operator to interpret the data.  When you need to do this for dozens of channels, this is very time consuming for the end user and requires unnecessary resources of the RT controller in performing these calculations.

 

With charts, it is possible to edit the Streaming Rate, but with Numeric Indicators this is not possible.  

 

Request:

 

  • Add an option in the Configuration Pane, for the numeric indicator selected, to Average the channel value by xx points (n)

 

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Pie566943.0

[VeriStand] Allow INI-based Paths for Plugins and Dependencies

Status: New Submitted by on 10-14-2019 01:39 PM 4 Comment

VeriStand looks in specific directories for plugins.  This makes source code control and configuration management difficult for our ADG customers.  If Veristand.ini allowed customers to provide paths (plural) to VeriStand plugins, then the plugin destination directory could be under SCC/CM and isolated from COTS plugins.  For example:

AdditionalCustomDevicePaths = "C:\Projects\Resolver;C:\Projects\Valve"

AdditionalFPGAPaths = "C:\Projects\EMF"

AdditionalToolsPaths = "C:\Projects\RTSA"

etc.

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S.Kakibe

Better Mapping user interface in VeriStand

Status: New Submitted by Active Participant on 02-13-2012 12:43 AM 9 Comment

Hello,

 

Mapping in VeriStand 2011 consists of only text, but user could grasp the whole mapping if the number of connections is increasing. So, visualized mapping tool like dSPACE ConfigurationDesk as below image must be good user interface for users.ConfigurationDesk.png

Regards,

 

Saku

 

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Bala_S

Undo function in Veristand Sequence Editor

Status: New Submitted by Member on 07-08-2016 01:34 PM Comment

Hello! 

 

It would be extremely usefull and would save lots of frustration if the Veristand Sequence Editor (and all of verstiand for that matter) had undo and redo functions. It is surprizing that software of this caliber does not have such a basic function. I posted this in the main veristand forum and wanted to also make sure it made it into the Idea Exchange.

 

Thanks!

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Ryan_S

Veristand - Include Additional Action VIs

Status: New Submitted by Active Participant on 02-26-2013 07:33 PM 1 Comment

VeriStand natively includes several Action VIs that provide the critical ability to run code on the gateway when a certain action is performed. Most often, this is used for executing code that cannot be run on Real-Time but needs to coincide with an event within VeriStand. This can also be achieved with VeriStand services, but is more complicated. I think that additional Action VIs, specifically ActionVIOnDeploy and ActionVIOnUndeploy would be very useful. And I'm sure there are additional ActionVIs that others would find useful.

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ATarman

VeriStand System Explorer User Interface Update

Status: New Submitted by Member on 08-17-2023 07:00 AM Comment

Request for evaluation by a user group and update of VeriStand System Explorer user interface.  The System Explorer user interface has changed little in several years - small improvements, such as allowing the user to enter formulas using the PC keyboard rather than the interface within the Calculated Channel Configuration Page would be significant.  As an example, the INERTIA Calculation Custom Device is more user friendly and intuitive.  

 

Additionally, the ability to better organize Calculated Channels, Alarms, Aliases, User Channels, etc. after creation would be helpful.  For large projects, where we have dozens of variables and calculated channels, it is a significant amount of work to organize after the variables or calculated channels are created.  Creating folders beforehand to help organize is a workaround, but after the fact, using the Cut and Paste functions are clunky - the ability to drag and drop would be preferred.

 

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Ryan_S

Add Save Options for VeriStand Project

Status: New Submitted by Active Participant on 02-04-2013 03:44 PM Comment

In LabVIEW, we have a lot of options for saving our projects as seen below:

 

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In VeriStand, currently, you only have the option for a normal save (as shown below). I think it would be nice to have a "Save As" for saving a copy of the project and, if possible, a "Save for Previous Version".

 

 

VeriStand.jpg

 

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CyGa

Allow VeriStand custom devices to be built as lvlibp instead of llb

Status: Completed Submitted by Active Participant Active Participant on 09-11-2021 10:01 PM 4 Comment

Hi,

 

LLBs are outdated, suffer from name collision because it doesn't embedded lvlib nor classes, and force the VIs to match the exact same LV dev version with VS runtime version (to be able to run the compiled code of raw VIs on the target without the need to recompile them).

 

It would be preferable if custom devices/controls could be built into lvlibp instead.

It has many advantages such as:

* Source protection

* Respect of lvlib and lvclass namespace (avoid name collision)

* Only the compiled code is stored so they are smaller than LLBs

* Compiled code made with LV 2017+ is compliant with upper versions of the run time engine (would allow keeping the version of LabVIEW while upgrading Veristand)

 

I'm pretty sure the limitation nowadays only relies on file extension filtering to find the 'main' VI to launch in the SysExplo and engine. If I'm right the change could be done easily.

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Frisbee

Real-time sequence console out

Status: New Submitted by on 08-27-2014 08:06 AM 10 Comment

[Edited on 8/28/2014 by moderator Diego Carvajal (dcarvaja)] [Image included in original post as requested] To help debug medium and large real-time test sequences, it would be very useful if there was a sequence step that allowed the user to specify a console message.

 

Much like the Print Debug String VI helps debug issues when building custom devices, this step would allow the developer to insert specific console flags and see what part of his/her real-time sequence is executing.

 

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Chris Washington

Simplified XML Generation for FPGA Personalities

Status: New Submitted by on 04-15-2011 10:07 AM 7 Comment

Benefit: Simplify the process and reduce errors when using FPGA personalities

 

Idea: Querry the user-generated FPGA diagram and automatically create the XML file.  Additionally, have some kind of editor/viewer for the XML file that would present the information similar to how it is presented in the System Explorer but allow the user to edit certain values (or just make it editable in the system explorer).  Some items would be read-only (items specific to the bitfile communication) and others would be editable (heirarchy, scaling, etc). 

 

Ultimately, the process for using FPGA Personalities would be:

 - create FPGA VI using NIVS interface/template

 - select interface in "utility/view" or System Explorer (XML file automatically generated)

 - edit default settings if desired

 

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tic.not.tock

[VeriStand] Adding simscape support for building models in Veristand

Status: Completed Submitted by on 04-25-2017 03:59 PM 2 Comment

I would like to able to build Simscape models successfully using the VeriStand Model Framework for my real-time targets. 

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Jackie_B

VLM and Update Service: Allow Administrators to control what patches are installed by clients via Update Service

Status: New Submitted by on 09-10-2012 08:47 PM 6 Comment

For security reasons, many customers using Volume License Manager to administer licenses to client machines do not authorize users to download and install anything from the web. Therefore, if a critical patch is released, the client machines are unable to download this unless it is distributed by the administrator. It would be useful for the VLM administrator to be able to configure the Update Service such that all Users can run the Update Service but the service has been configured to point to an internal network share rather than an internet location outside the firewall. This way, the administrator could make critical updates and patches available for the client machines and the clients can be notified and install them.

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frankkremer

Enable use of Aliases in System Explorer

Status: New Submitted by Member on 01-24-2012 03:38 AM 4 Comment

If you want to exchange a model you have to reconfigure many things. You could use Aliases to reduce the effort for the Workspace and Workspace Tools.

But in the System Explorer you can only use Aliases for Calculated Channels.

Please make it possible to use Aliases also for Mappings, Alarms and Procedures.

 

Thank you,

 

Frank

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h_yong

Workspace screen order changes

Status: In Development Submitted by Active Participant on 03-03-2013 02:00 AM 1 Comment

The only way to edit the order of VeriStand workspace screen pages once they're created is to edit the cryptic XML file where screen pages are referred to by numbers. I'd like to be able to reorder the screen pages from within the workspace. Thank you.

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Eric.M

Refresh the *.nivssdf Tree on Demand

Status: New Submitted by Active Participant on 01-10-2018 07:16 AM 5 Comment

The VeriStand System Definition API allows you to edit a definition file. While it is mostly used as an offline API, it is also often used in custom devices code, notably thanks to the Item Reference to Pointer function that gives your access to the SystemStorage namespace, an internal representation of the SystemDefinitionAPI.

 

Unfortunately, there's a hiccup with that. If you want to edit existing nodes in your system definition, it works. If you want to add/remove nodes or sections (say, automatically add an alarm when you add a given custom device channel), the underlying API calls will work but you can't see the modifications in the System Definition tree: my alarm won't show up in the tree although it exists in memory. You'll have to manually save and reopen the *.nivssdf file for that. This can't be a decent workaround for end users.

 

Would NI R&D be nice enough to provide us with a public function that refreshes the tree (or parts of it if we feed the node reference)?

 

--Eric

 

Nb: I currently have a working solution, in case anyone urgently needs this feature.

 

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T.Gilbert

Workspace Design Usability

Status: In Development Submitted by Member on 05-27-2011 05:08 AM 3 Comment

Editing the NI VeriStand Workspace is a very time-consuming job. Especially after arranging a huge number of controls and indicators it is a pain to drag and drop each object in order to move the whole arrangement to another place.

 

Improvement:  If the user could mark multiple objects at one time he could move them all together. The selection could be done by holding the Shift or Ctrl key or just by framing them with a selection box.

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Mathieu_R.

VeriStand : Embedded Data Logger : Configurable timestamp format string for file name

Status: New Submitted by Active Participant on 08-14-2013 04:58 AM Comment

The custom Device allows to include in the name of generated files a timestamp, with this format: %<%I_%M_%S_%p_%d_%m_%y>T

 

Today, my customer prefer something like %<Y%m%d_%H%M%S>
Tomorrow? I don't know.

 

Having a format string configurable from System Exlorer would be really convenient.

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OlegS

[VeriStand 2016] Relativ path for a Real Time Sequence in a Stimulus Profile Editor

Status: New Submitted by on 02-22-2017 03:37 AM 1 Comment

When using VeriStand with Source Control SW paths for Real-Time Sequences in the Stimulus Profile Editor need to be customized on every check out because it’s not possible to use a relative path for a Real-Time Sequence in a Stimulus Profile Editor.

Even if the Real-Time Sequence is in the same folder like a Stimulus Profile itself it isn’t found and the path has to be be adjusted.

 

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So it would be awesome if it would be possible in VeriStand 2017 to use relative paths for a Real-Time Sequences in a Stimulus Profile Editor.

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h_yong

Allow grouping of calculated channels

Status: New Submitted by Active Participant on 03-03-2013 01:45 AM Comment

Like how user channels can be grouped into folders, I'd like to be able to group Calculated Channels into folders. Thank you.

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h_yong

Move items into and out of folders

Status: New Submitted by Active Participant on 03-03-2013 01:48 AM 1 Comment

Although user channels and alarms can be created under folders for better organization, I don't see a way to:

- move channels/alarms in folders out of folders (without first deleting them and recreating them outside of the folders)

- move channels/alarms out of folders

Being able to drag and drop in and out of folders would make organization easier. Thank you.

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