How to save table data AFTER program has ended? (a sad one-time-only solution)

[shari!]

Hi all,

I have a Labview program that gathers data from an oscilloscope as an experiment runs.  Some hardware issue made me have to full-stop the program early and some idiotic programming on my part didn't have a fail-safe check for saving my data if an abort program situation arose.  (I have it autosave the table when a software error occurs or the program finishes or a manual stop button is pressed).  

So right now I have a data table populated on my program front screen with all the experimental data I need and I need a way to save this current data table. It's a big data set that is not easily to repeat.  Is there a way to do this? (besides write a better program for next time 🙂

Thanks for your help!

[Taki1999]

What version of LabVIEW?

you should be able to right click and Export Data to Excel.

[Sam_Sharp · Accepted solution]

Yeah, you should be able to right click the table and copy data or export to Excel.

You can also try to create a constant from the table (don't delete the original until you have your data though!) and then you can copy+paste it into a simple VI which saves the data in the constant to disk.

[shari!]

Thanks for the suggestion!  I'm using version 8.6 which doesn't seem to have any right-click save function except to save it as an image.  But I took your advice to copy it into a new vi and convert it to a control and then save it with the write to spreadsheet function.  It worked!  Thanks for both of your quick replies 🙂