Find callers

[Hamilton_Woods]

I have a TestStand project that contains "main" test sequence that calls around 10 test sequence files that each call anywhere from 5 to 50 test sequence files. I need to determine if a particular test sequence file is called by any other test sequence file. LabVIEW has a couple of ways to find VIs that call a specific VI. I cannot see how to do something equivalent for test sequence files that are called by other test sequence files. Am I missing something?

I have even just tried looking for text that is part of a test sequence file, but I don't seem to be able to do that either.

[SercoSteveB]

Hi Hamilton_Woods,

I am not aware of anything that you could access through the TestStand Sequence Editor.  It can be done using the TestStand API but would require you to write some code to bubble through your sequences until you have all of the paths of the sequences called.

Regards

Steve

[bienieck]

How about Sequence Hierarchy Window?

Also, you can use find (CTRL+SHIFT+F) and look for the sequence file path.

[Hamilton_Woods]

Thanks for the suggestion to view the hierarchy. I did that. It was minimally helpful. Unfortunately, the hierarchy shows "Main Sequence" as the name of every sequence in the hierarchy. The name of the sequence file is in the legend, which is color coded. I have so many sequence files that the colors are repeated multiple times. I was able to see who called who by noticing the color of the sequence file of interest and hovering over the "Main Sequences" of that color. The name of the sequence file is displayed while hovering. After locating the "Main Sequence" of interest, I was able to touch the "wires" leading to the callers one by one to observe the callers of the sequence file of interest.

[RaviShrigiri · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Please try menu Edit -- > Find and Replace in files

Give the name of the sequence file and select the directory under which all the sequence files are present.

It should list out the required files.

Hope this helps.

Ravi

[bienieck · Accepted solution]

1. Open Find/Replace in Files window (CTRL+SHIFT+F)
2. Specify sequence file (e.g. ModelSupport.seq; see the first screen)
3. Specify filter. Search for SFPath object (see the second screen)
4. Find all sequence file calls in the Find Results pane (see the third screen)

This will work if you call sequence files using explicit file name/path. If you specify sequence file dynamically (build name using expressions) this solution will not work.

[Hamilton_Woods]

I tried the approach offered by bienieck and RaviShrigiri. It actually works! The thing to be careful of is that the sequence file to be searched for needs to be the complete file name, including the extension. Otherwise, the search comes back empty.

I hope these answers are as helpful to someone else as they are to me!!! Kudos to both of you!

[bienieck]

You can use regex as well.