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Sarah_Y

Right Click Option to Show Function in Palette

Status: New

Whenever I download a new toolkit or example, if I don't know where a function block on the palette is located, I have to use the search or fumble through the palettes to find it.  It would be really helpful if there was an option when I right-clicked a function that would pop up the functions palette to show where it is located.

 

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Sarah Yost
Senior Product Marketing Manager
2 Comments
AristosQueue (NI)
NI Employee (retired)

If the item is in the palettes, it will already have a link to that palette. If there's no linked palette, the item isn't in the palettes. See picture below. 

 

My personal opinion (not speaking for NI):

I would not want to waste space in the popup menus on a learning tool. You can search the palettes easily enough to find where an item is located. The popup menus get used all the time, and that would just be one more option creating noise in the vast majority of cases.

 

 

Showing the current popup behavior:

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Darin.K
Trusted Enthusiast

For primitives I could see Double-clicking as an option to find the object in the palettes.