Hyperlink in Floating Comments

[Rick_K]

Simply put, you should be able to put a URL hyperlink in a floating comment to link out to some site.

Imagine being able to add a hyperlink to the mathematical description of a VI that you used. Perhaps you have an internal server of IP Documentation. You could add a hyperlink to that in depth information directly in your VI. Perhaps you want to put your logo along with a link to your website at the top level of your source code. Whatever the reason, you need to be able to add a normal comment to the block diagram and populate that comment with text and hyperlinks.

As a extension, this new comment field could even take simple html tags for more formatting, embedding images, or maybe even an embedded video.

Message Edited by Rick K on 09-17-2009 12:06 PM

[muks]

Yes. We will be requiring documentation like this to make the code really very effective. Simple but will be very effective. But I still feel a embedding video will be too much of an ask. What will happen to the size of the code?

[Rick_K]

As an extension of allowing link, I was thinking of more like an HTML webview within LabVIEW. The actual video itself woud not be part of the file, but some constructs to embed a video from the internet could be allowable.

[muks]

I am for it!!!

[TimS.]

I think this would be a great addition. We use quite a bit of intranet based documentation for how the LabVIEW programs operate and it would be nice to just provide a link to a webpage that explains why the code is operating the way that it is.

[Pie56694]

I've often wanted this feature for code reviews!  It would be great to comment on a section of code with a link to the LabVIEW Help document, KB, DevZone, etc. that explained WHY the code should be fixed.  One thing that I'll still run into, however, is the free label is not linked to the block diagram object.  I wish "Group" worked on the BD as well as the FP, so we could then link the comment to the code it pertained to.

[Nilkrub]

Linking to local or remote data would help documenting both software and hardware. We would like to link to PDF files (schematics), Autocad, Office... We Run 90+% on RT ( cFP & rio) systems without operator interface, so our use would be in development environment as the base point to start on all service to our systems. Ability to attach the link to specific nodes in the BD would make it more usefull. I like it.

[TurboPhil]

Darin K. did this in an Xnode last year. Any chance we can get that as a standard feature?

[maxwellb]

I really want to use this right now to explain to future developers why I have to add in a weird routine to remove filter delay from DSA devices!

[Jimmie_A.]

I would love to see hyperlink support!

[Fianlor]

It would also be handy to hyperlink to other comments within the same code. Sometimes I want to comment on a code section and then refer to how that code interacts with code elsewhere, normally within the same vi.