How to incorporate File name and timestamp automatically into select and save file dialog box?

[Mike227]

Hello,

i am trying to incorporate the file name which is inputed by the user along with the timestamp into the selected and save file dialog box. Can you help?

Thanks

[REDS · Accepted solution]

Hi Mike227,

I couldn't find a way to do it right off the bat. I imagine you would need to mess with ActiveX to do that.I found an msdn page that might help with this.

Have you considered just concatenating the file name and the timestamp with a file path and save the file when you are creating it, without prompting that to the user?

[PhillipBrooks]

You can pass a default file name to the 'File Dialog' Express VI.

Use the 'selected path' output to open the file.