Add a Volume License annual renewal justification report. Here are the features:
Purpose: To create a document that can be used to get cost approval signatures from many departments so that the whole combined renewal can get approved.
Input user names grouped by department that pays renewal, LabVIEW array of clusters of arrays so each group can have its own size.
Input NI renewal quote
Output report cost per department to renew listing the names in that department. Example rows are departments, columns are type of license (I manage a dozen types). Cells therein are user names. At right most column is the cost per department. I do this in a spreadsheet, the math is built in such that adding a name to a cell adds the cost of renewing that license to his/her department. Multiple names in one cell add that many licenses to that department. The quote total is entered on the top of the report and the department costs are totaled at the bottom of the right most column, these are checked to match.
Output at the bottom is a table with the department heads of each department for their signature and date.
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Note: I invented this form years ago and used it to get into the VLA program. Once all the separate departments signed their approvals the higher ups were good with the cost. I was surprised that it worked then, now its an annual chore to do it all over again, so build it into NI-VLM. Maybe more new VLA will result.
