LabVIEW Feature Suggestions

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1. LabVIEW Idea Exchange 1 2 3 4

   By John Lokanis, August 8, 2009
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   • TomOrr0W
   • May 14, 2018

2. "Locate in Project" feature

   By Michael Aivaliotis, August 23, 2007
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   • rkesmodel
   • March 5, 2009

3. "Sticky" Arrange By

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

4. #define constants in LabVIEW

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

5. <Ctl+Click> on VI in Proj Explorer Should Open Blk Diag

   By alukindo, July 6, 2007
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   • Aristos Queue
   • July 10, 2007

6. 24 Great Ideas from NI's LV Idea Exchange for you to Kudos

   By Aristos Queue, June 22, 2010
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   • John Lokanis
   • June 24, 2010

7. A comment box

   By Frank, May 24, 2004
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   • Mike Ashe
   • December 26, 2004

8. 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

9. Ability to run selected section of block diagram

   By PatNN, February 2, 2008
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   • dbyers3
   • February 21, 2008

10. Ability to set or reset the name associated with a wire (data path)

    By WMassey, December 8, 2005
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    • jpdrolet
    • December 20, 2005

11. 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

12. Add diagram size limit or warning

    By Barrie, October 8, 2005
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    • Mike Ashe
    • October 13, 2005

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

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

14. An Argument for Changing Combo Box Typedef Behavior

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

15. An idea on the exchange I'm wondering if everyone overlooked

    By Aristos Queue, May 8, 2012
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    • Rolf Kalbermatter
    • May 20, 2012

16. Anchor Property to Panel objects

    By dcooper, July 25, 2007
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    • Aristos Queue
    • July 25, 2007

17. Anchoring The Iteration And Conditional Terminals

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

18. Apply display properties to selected controls

    By Phillip Brooks, October 31, 2005
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    • lavezza
    • February 28, 2006

19. Apply Icon Changes to Child Implementations

    By mje, September 16, 2010
    • 7 replies
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    • Minh Pham
    • February 12, 2013

20. Array auto-indexing

    By GregSands, November 4, 2008
    • 5 replies
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    • Biometrology
    • November 8, 2008

21. Arrow line in 3d picture control

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

22. Article: Retriggerable First Call

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

23. Auto-indexing tunnel that appends rather than builds an array

    By eaolson, September 27, 2007
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    • Gabi1
    • September 28, 2007

24. Autoload a VI on project load

    By Michael Aivaliotis, September 23, 2006
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    • Aristos Queue
    • September 23, 2006

25. Automatic Error Merging

    By ragglefrock, July 29, 2008
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    • Yair
    • July 31, 2008

26. Automatically Coerce Enum to String

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

27. Basic Mods to LabVIEW Search Dialog

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

28. Better control of execution highlighting

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

29. Better use of Color boxes

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

30. Block Diagram subdiagram label

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

31. Built-in types & LabVIEW Object Controls

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

32. Cancel ALL button during Find

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

33. Case Structure Tunnel Improvements

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

34. Changed VI Error List Behaviour

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

35. code modification in debug mode

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

36. Comments in Configuration Files

    By Cloedu, October 2, 2007
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    • hooovahh
    • August 29, 2022

37. Compound arithmetic

    By Louis Manfredi, August 2, 2005
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    • m3nth
    • August 3, 2005

38. Concatenate 2D array horizontally

    By James N, August 12, 2009
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    • gb119
    • May 19, 2019

39. Conditional Append

    By MartinMai, May 3, 2008
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    • Yair
    • May 6, 2008

40. Conditional Disable in build settings 1 2

    By Ton Plomp, April 16, 2008
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    • drjdpowell
    • February 6, 2017

41. Context menu for subVIs

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

42. Copy Data method in Invoke Nodes

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

43. copy/paste "format and precision" properties on numerics

    By LAVA 1.0 Content, November 7, 2007
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    • JDave
    • November 21, 2007

44. Create New Event from Terminal

    By CaseyM, March 6, 2009
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    • Yair
    • March 7, 2009

45. Cross Compiler

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

46. Custom decorations, and programmatically placing them

    By dhuff, July 17, 2003
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    • Norm Kirchner
    • February 22, 2008

47. Debug An Instance Of A Reentrant Vi.

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

48. Default to text entry on auto Constant Labels

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

49. Description and Tip Appearance

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

50. Diagram bookmarks

    By PJS, October 11, 2005
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    • m3nth
    • December 5, 2005

51. Do you wish "Create SubVI From Selection" worked better? 1 2

    By Aristos Queue, September 10, 2010
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    • Norm Kirchner
    • September 16, 2010

52. Empty Tunnels on Cases

    By Mule, December 7, 2005
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    • Mule
    • December 8, 2005

53. Enumerated Types with Ring type numbering

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

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

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

55. Exclusive Range for a Case Structure

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

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

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

57. Feature Request: Always skip password prompts

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

58. Feature Request: Make <labview> a Symbolic Path

    By Jim Kring, October 20, 2007
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    • Rolf Kalbermatter
    • November 21, 2007

59. Feature Request: User.lib exclusions from SCC

    By LAVA 1.0 Content, February 13, 2009
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    • mje
    • March 26, 2009

60. Feedback request - allow libraries to protect references they create

    By Yair, November 17, 2011
    • 22 replies
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    • drjdpowell
    • December 5, 2011

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

    By X___, April 22   

    • find dialog
    • numeric constant
    • 0 replies
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    • X___
    • April 22

62. Format Painter for FP and BD objects

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

63. FrontPanel Transparency...

    By Norm Kirchner, July 1, 2008
    • 23 replies
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    • Francois Normandin
    • July 23, 2008

64. Functional Dataflow Programming with LabVIEW

    By Tomi Maila, December 4, 2013   

    • functional programming
    • dataflow
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      Tagged with:

      • functional programming
      • dataflow
      • labview
    • 7 replies
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    • ned
    • November 12, 2014

65. Guides and Rulers

    By Norm Kirchner, September 18, 2008
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    • John Lokanis
    • September 18, 2008

66. Help Display of Connector Pane optional terminals

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

67. Help talk me into or out of this hack: a new conditional disable symbol 1 2

    By Aristos Queue, October 6, 2017   

    • conditional_disable_structure
    • debugging
    • 31 replies
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    • Aristos Queue
    • October 11, 2017

68. Help text needs a rewrite

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

69. Horizontal Scrolling hotkey

    By asbo, November 20, 2008
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    • Joseph Gorse
    • July 7, 2023

70. I want polymorphic support for arrays in To More Generic/Specific

    By Jim Kring, August 17, 2007
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    • crelf
    • August 18, 2007

71. I want the taskbar icons to be different for Blocks and FP's

    By Daddy-O, November 7, 2007
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    • crelf
    • November 9, 2007

72. I wish for a LabVIEW Wishlist

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

73. I would like a "Shrink To Contents" for block diagram structures

    By Justin Goeres, October 25, 2007
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    • JDave
    • October 25, 2007

74. Icon View of typedef constants

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

75. Idea exchange Idea status

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

76. 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

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

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

78. Ideas on LV Idea Exchange have started moving to "In Development"

    By Aristos Queue, November 2, 2010
    • 18 replies
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    • Black Pearl
    • November 4, 2010

79. If LV could detect race conditions, should we break the VI?

    By Aristos Queue, October 12, 2014
    • 21 replies
    • 9.7k views
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    • shoneill
    • November 12, 2014

80. Implement Ctrl-A in text edition

    By jpdrolet, September 21, 2005
    • 3 replies
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    • PJM_labview
    • October 2, 2005

81. Incorporate a ZOOM function

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

82. Initialize 2D array

    By Aitor Solar, July 11, 2008
    • 9 replies
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    • Aristos Queue
    • July 12, 2008

83. Inspection template in Vision Builder AI

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

84. Install Driver to drive other than C:

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

85. Intelligent shift registers

    By LAVA 1.0 Content, September 29, 2006
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    • Mike Ashe
    • September 29, 2006

86. Introduce subprojects or packages as hierarchical elements in projects

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

87. Kudos value in the Idea Exchange

    By GregSands, December 12, 2012
    • 14 replies
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    • Darin
    • March 8, 2016

88. Labels on shiftregisters

    By Jeffrey Habets, November 9, 2007
    • 10 replies
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    • crelf
    • February 1, 2008

89. Labview 8.x.x Install Sizes 1 2

    By brent99, February 23, 2008
    • 30 replies
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    • REM1
    • March 5, 2008

90. LabVIEW Browser Control

    By Ed Dickens, October 27, 2004
    • 7 replies
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    • Mike Ashe
    • November 29, 2005

91. LabVIEW Documentation Survey

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

92. LabVIEW Feature Idea: Case Insensitive String Comparison Mode for Equal?

    By Jim Kring, April 30, 2010
    • 4 replies
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    • Yair
    • May 1, 2010

93. LabVIEW Feedback for NI

    By NI Guy, January 6, 2009
    • 6 replies
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    • crelf
    • January 10, 2009

94. LabVIEW wire labels

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

95. LAVA forums wish list policy

    By Jim Kring, July 9, 2004
    • 5 replies
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    • Yair
    • November 9, 2007

96. LAVA Members LabVIEW wish list

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

97. Let floating point numeric probes by default display all/more digits

    By Jeffrey Habets, October 6, 2008
    • 3 replies
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    • Yair
    • October 7, 2008

98. 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

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

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

100. list directory : more flexible pattern wished

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