Documentation of all settings of a measuring device as a function of the driver

[Henrik_Volkers]

When it comes to documentation of an measurement, you need to report ALL settings of a device that effects that measurement.

From a core memory dump written as a hex string to a XML document.... anything that shows up a difference in the settings that affect the measurement would be fine for documentation.

Something like a big property node readout followed by a format into string .... but make sure not to miss a property.... and a bit more complicated when it comes to signal routing....

A measurement that isn't sufficiently documented is all for naught. 

or

Just think of a nasty auditor 😉

It's so easy to make measurements with LabVIEW, please make it easy and consistent to document it.

Example:

A quick measurement setup with the DAQ-assistant/Express fills Gigabytes but after a certain time they are useless because nobody knows how they where taken. A simple checkbox could add all this information in the variant of the waveform. (or TDMS or ...) even if the operator don't have a clue of all the settings that affect his measurements.

[Brad_K]

Hi Henrik,

Great idea. You can sort of do this today by saving the task (to MAX) and exporting the entire DAQmx configuration to an INI file, but it would be nice to have an easier way to do this that doesn't clutter up MAX and doesn't export the entire configuration.

Brad

[Henrik_Volkers]

Currently I would be very happy if the where a TDMS set property vi that accepts a (VISA,Scope,DAQ,...) Task and stores all task properties to the group/channel....   maybe worth a new idea.... but the main problem still seems to exists: How to get ALL relevant configuration settings (that the user is or is not avare of)

[crossrulz]

I like the idea of having the TDMS logging saving all of the channel setup information in the channel's properties.  I think that is worth a new idea.  And while NI is mucking around in that code, they could get my idea in as well: Additional TDMS Metadata