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Broken_Arrow

A faster & neater way to show Cluster Element Labels

Status: Already Implemented
Available in LabVIEW 2012. In LabVIEW 2012 and higher, you have the ability to select multiple items on a block diagram (like elements in a cluster) and have a common right-click menu items available (like Visible Items>>Labels)

Here's how we currently make cluster element labels appear, and a proposed idea for improvement.

ClusterLabels.png

Richard






28 Comments
RavensFan
Knight of NI

I wouldn't say already implemented.  LabVIEW 2012 didn't exist yet when this idea was proposed in February 2011.

AristosQueue (NI)
NI Employee (retired)

RavensFan: The policy is to only mark as "Complete" those ideas that we worked on because of the Idea Exchange. There are many ideas that we have had in the pipe for a while that get added to the Exchange. We don't consider those to be "motivating NI". I do wish we had another bucket for those coincidentally completed ideas, but we don't, so this is how the forum moderators have decided to handle it. This means that things that you see marked as "Completed" were done specifically because some user in the Exchange suggested it.

Darin.K
Trusted Enthusiast

As the saying goes, the optics are bad when an idea is suggested on the IE, voted up, and then appears in a future LV version with no attribution to the idea author.  IMO the proper procedure is to mark these ideas which are "coincidentally completed" as In Development when they are suggested (at least soon thereafter).

Broken_Arrow
Active Participant

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Richard






tomsze
Member

So which version of NI I can use this function? Is there is list of ideas with status and version number implemented?

Broken_Arrow
Active Participant

Good question tomsze. They did not implement this idea in the spirit in which I wrote the Idea 6 years ago.

Richard






AristosQueue (NI)
NI Employee (retired)

The answer is in the post where the feature was marked as Already Implemented.

Those posts used to be promoted to the top of the idea, but that feature got eliminated by the new web forum software. I've begged for it to be restored, but the new vendor doesn't have that functionality yet.

 

In this case, LV 2012.

There's also a right-click plug-in that I wrote that is closer to what what Broken Arrow asked for. You can install it into your LV from here: http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW-Shortcut-Menu-Plug-Ins/Expand-Cluster-Constant-llb/ta-p/3517818

X.
Trusted Enthusiast
Trusted Enthusiast

...located on page 3 of the Shortcut Menu Plug-Ins page (using 20 topics per page), in other words hardly discoverable. But that's probably part of the "gamification" slant of the "new web forum software".

Tons of fun.