LabVIEW Feature Suggestions

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1. Allow user to specify location of "LabVIEW Data" folder

   By mje, July 11, 2010
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   • mje
   • July 12, 2010

2. #define constants in LabVIEW

   By lavezza, June 19, 2004
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   • Michael Aivaliotis
   • June 23, 2004

3. list directory : more flexible pattern wished

   By psychomanu, October 11, 2004
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   • psychomanu
   • October 12, 2004

4. Exclusive Range for a Case Structure

   By asbo, April 25, 2009
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   • ShaunR
   • April 25, 2009

5. Incorporate a ZOOM function

   By naruto, July 19, 2004
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   • naruto
   • July 21, 2004

6. Multicolumn List Box with objects

   By sydney, August 4, 2010
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   • mje
   • August 4, 2010

7. Context menu for subVIs

   By Yair, May 20, 2005
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   • Yair
   • May 26, 2005

8. Format Painter for FP and BD objects

   By Michael Aivaliotis, January 5, 2011
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   • Michael Aivaliotis
   • January 5, 2011

9. VI Probes

   By nightdweller, July 30, 2004
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   • nightdweller
   • August 3, 2004

10. Writing to a simulated DAQmx resource

    By viSci, July 24, 2006
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    • viSci
    • July 25, 2006

11. Install Driver to drive other than C:

    By mike5, August 2, 2011
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    • mike5
    • August 3, 2011

12. "Sticky" Arrange By

    By orko, August 23, 2007
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    • orko
    • August 23, 2007

13. Quick One-Click Nodes Changing Loop Tunnel Mode

    By EErock, January 9, 2020
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    • hooovahh
    • January 10, 2020

14. Icon View of typedef constants

    By jdunham, March 7, 2005
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    • Mark Balla
    • March 10, 2005

15. A slew of ideas about the new Asynch Call By Ref

    By Aristos Queue, August 8, 2011
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    • Val Brown
    • August 9, 2011

16. Unicode Support

    By sam, April 14, 2004
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    • Rolf Kalbermatter
    • October 18, 2005

17. Help Display of Connector Pane optional terminals

    By WMassey, October 20, 2005
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    • WMassey
    • October 20, 2005

18. Accelerator key for jumping to next error in error list

    By Michael Aivaliotis, March 12, 2009
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    • Shaun Hayward
    • March 12, 2009

19. Changed VI Error List Behaviour

    By Michael Aivaliotis, March 13, 2006
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    • Grampa_of_Oliva_n_Eden
    • March 13, 2006

20. Exchange one subVI for another with a Ctrl-V

    By WMassey, August 24, 2005
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    • BChandler
    • October 16, 2005

21. Description and Tip Appearance

    By Gary Rubin, June 21, 2007
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    • Francois Normandin
    • June 30, 2010

22. Basic Mods to LabVIEW Search Dialog

    By rayodyne, June 28, 2008
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    • Norm Kirchner
    • July 1, 2008

23. LAVA Members LabVIEW wish list

    By Michael Aivaliotis, May 20, 2003
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    • Aristos Queue
    • July 3, 2009

24. Idea exchange Idea status

    By Michael Aivaliotis, September 17, 2009
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    • Phillip Brooks
    • September 17, 2009

25. String>Time Conversion

    By Yair, May 15, 2005
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    • Shawn Walpole
    • August 23, 2006

26. Default to text entry on auto Constant Labels

    By JDave, December 7, 2007
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    • Aristos Queue
    • December 8, 2007

27. Option for Description and Tip to be the same.

    By jpdrolet, July 21, 2004
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    • Michael Aivaliotis
    • July 21, 2004

28. Show array resize info in elements, not pixels.

    By Justin Goeres, December 8, 2007
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    • LAVA 1.0 Content
    • December 8, 2007

29. Want to be able to use the "create" action on groups of controls

    By Michael Aivaliotis, March 26, 2009
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    • Aristos Queue
    • March 27, 2009

30. Idea: Allow Bundle By Name to require all elements.

    By jdunham, September 22, 2008
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    • orko
    • September 23, 2008

31. Tab Control to consolidate loops

    By lewdrake, December 14, 2003
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    • m3nth
    • September 18, 2004

32. Manage Instrument Drivers with VI Package Manager (VIPM)

    By crelf, January 19, 2011
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    • Chris Bolin
    • January 20, 2011

33. Saved Searches and Results (in the Find Dialog)

    By Jim Kring, February 8, 2010
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    • dannyt
    • February 9, 2010

34. LabVIEW Documentation Survey

    By Lynne, September 26, 2006
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    • LAVA 1.0 Content
    • September 26, 2006

35. LV8.x vs LV7.1.1 Cursor Legend Reference Changes

    By Justin Goeres, November 8, 2006
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    • mgunning
    • November 12, 2006

36. Anchoring The Iteration And Conditional Terminals

    By David Boyd, March 31, 2004
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    • Aristos Queue
    • September 21, 2007

37. Tab Stops

    By Randall Thurman, April 22, 2004
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    • aledain
    • April 24, 2004

38. Lossy Queue Capability

    By LAVA 1.0 Content, October 2, 2006
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    • Phillip Brooks
    • August 2, 2008

39. LabVIEW wire labels

    By Fingolfin, July 10, 2009
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    • Yair
    • July 11, 2009

40. code modification in debug mode

    By Gabi1, June 21, 2008
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    • LAVA 1.0 Content
    • June 21, 2008

41. Shift register terminals as default for error clusters

    By Tomi Maila, November 21, 2007
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    • PJM_labview
    • November 21, 2007

42. MAX Virtual Channels and Scales (Max and Min)

    By pete_dunham, July 13, 2009
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    • David Boyd
    • July 15, 2009

43. Shortcut Request

    By jfazekas, April 3, 2008
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    • PaulG.
    • April 4, 2008

44. Structure wishes

    By Ton Plomp, May 2, 2006
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    • Phillip Brooks
    • May 2, 2006

45. Vertical Scrollbar for Graphs

    By Partha, February 27, 2008
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    • Ton Plomp
    • February 29, 2008

46. Help text needs a rewrite

    By David Boyd, September 13, 2007
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    • orko
    • September 14, 2007

47. Save XControl data to disk method

    By Ton Plomp, February 29, 2008
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    • PIE566943.0
    • January 18, 2011

48. waveform graph with error bars

    By psychomanu, October 11, 2004
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    • Barrie
    • October 13, 2004

49. Better control of execution highlighting

    By Yair, August 26, 2005
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    • Yair
    • August 26, 2005

50. Replacing equality tests - retain comparison mode

    By WMassey, August 26, 2005
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    • WMassey
    • August 26, 2005

51. Better use of Color boxes

    By BChandler, November 12, 2005
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    • BChandler
    • November 12, 2005

52. RDA for DAQmx

    By Kevin Boronka, September 2, 2006
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    • Kevin Boronka
    • September 2, 2006

53. I wish for a LabVIEW Wishlist

    By Jim Kring, May 26, 2003
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    • Jim Kring
    • May 26, 2003

54. Non-strict arrays

    By Yair, May 15, 2005
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    • Yair
    • May 15, 2005

55. Enumerated Types with Ring type numbering

    By JDave, March 22, 2006
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    • JDave
    • March 22, 2006

56. Vote for this idea if you use SVN and VI Analyzer

    By Stagg54, September 16, 2010
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    • Stagg54
    • September 16, 2010

57. Article: Retriggerable First Call

    By BobHamburger, September 20, 2008
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    • BobHamburger
    • September 20, 2008

58. Case Structure Tunnel Improvements

    By Michael Aivaliotis, July 26, 2004
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    • Michael Aivaliotis
    • July 26, 2004

59. Make the "Rearrange Cases" panel resizable or bigger!

    By WMassey, September 15, 2005
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    • WMassey
    • September 15, 2005

60. An Argument for Changing Combo Box Typedef Behavior

    By viSci, December 13, 2008
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    • viSci
    • December 13, 2008

61. Idea may get adopted by NI, but needs customer comments

    By Aristos Queue, September 22, 2010
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    • Aristos Queue
    • September 22, 2010

62. Fix the Find Dialog for numeric constants and support constant with units

    By X___, April 22, 2025   

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    • numeric constant
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    • X___
    • April 22, 2025

63. Cross Compiler

    By James McAnanama, August 16, 2004
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    • James McAnanama
    • August 16, 2004

64. State Machine Diagram for CASE structures.

    By Mike Ashe, June 14, 2005
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    • Mike Ashe
    • June 14, 2005

65. Recently Used panel of VIs

    By John Lokanis, September 28, 2005
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    • John Lokanis
    • September 28, 2005

66. Support for Additional 3rd Party Installers when building an Installer

    By Jim Kring, February 3, 2010
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    • Jim Kring
    • February 3, 2010

67. Offset And Gain For Virtual Channels

    By JackHamilton, January 31, 2004
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    • JackHamilton
    • January 31, 2004

68. Inspection template in Vision Builder AI

    By Antoine Chalons, March 3, 2009
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    • Antoine Chalons
    • March 3, 2009

69. Recursive type structures for references

    By Tomi Maila, November 10, 2007
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    • Tomi Maila
    • November 10, 2007

70. Debug An Instance Of A Reentrant Vi.

    By Michael Aivaliotis, February 18, 2004
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    • Michael Aivaliotis
    • February 18, 2004

71. Spell Check...

    By daytonaman, March 2, 2004
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    • daytonaman
    • March 2, 2004

72. List Changed Vis On "do You Want To Save?"

    By Mike Ashe, March 23, 2004
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    • Mike Ashe
    • March 23, 2004

73. TestStand should update step status in every loop interval

    By Thang Nguyen, July 10, 2015   

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    • Thang Nguyen
    • July 10, 2015

74. Built-in types & LabVIEW Object Controls

    By Tomi Maila, February 14, 2007
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    • Tomi Maila
    • February 14, 2007

75. Cancel ALL button during Find

    By m3nth, December 16, 2004
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    • m3nth
    • December 16, 2004

76. Programmatic refresh of menus (Tools/File/Help)

    By Jim Kring, June 18, 2008
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    • Jim Kring
    • June 18, 2008

77. Introduce subprojects or packages as hierarchical elements in projects

    By PaulL, May 26, 2010
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    • PaulL
    • May 26, 2010

78. Subpanel wish

    By i2dx, January 6, 2006
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    • i2dx
    • January 6, 2006

79. Selective overwrite of Source Files

    By Ton Plomp, May 8, 2008
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    • Ton Plomp
    • May 8, 2008

80. User Defined Filter/Mask on text controls

    By Mike Ashe, December 26, 2004
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    • Mike Ashe
    • December 26, 2004

81. Timestamp in the error cluster

    By LAVA 1.0 Content, January 12, 2007
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    • LAVA 1.0 Content
    • January 12, 2007

82. Make more use of cursor keys, etc.

    By Barrie, September 24, 2004
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    • Barrie
    • September 24, 2004

83. Copy Data method in Invoke Nodes

    By Zou, May 27, 2004
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    • Zou
    • May 27, 2004

84. Remove previous source when wiring a new source

    By jpdrolet, June 11, 2004
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    • jpdrolet
    • June 11, 2004

85. Let the ideas develop here, vote at NI.com

    By LAVA 1.0 Content, June 2, 2009
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    • LAVA 1.0 Content
    • June 2, 2009

86. Block Diagram subdiagram label

    By Francois Normandin, April 7, 2020
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    • Francois Normandin
    • April 7, 2020

87. Feature Report: Disallow Minimize Window = No taskbar item for window

    By WMassey, January 18, 2006
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    • WMassey
    • January 18, 2006

88. Arrow line in 3d picture control

    By jhony, July 24, 2017
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    • jhony
    • July 24, 2017

89. Feature Request: Always skip password prompts

    By Jim Kring, September 15, 2007
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    • Jim Kring
    • September 15, 2007