Teststand - Read the configured DB connection string in LabVIEW

[Wim]

Hi All,

 

We are upgrading a big project with TestStand 2010 and LabVIEW2010 to version 2013 (TS and LV)

 

Meanwhile upgrading a few items in the database and configuration.

 

In teststand 2013 you can configure result processing options.

 

We configured the database option to log in a MySQL DB. All works fine.

 

However, it would be usefull to read the datalink configuration in the operator interface.

 

Is there a way to read the >> Result processing >> Database >> Database options >> Data link >> connection string expression with the teststand api?

 

I've been searching in the teststand engin api and the application manager api but so far no succes.

 

Thx.

 

Wim

[Bryan]

Sorry to revive an old topic, but I'm currently looking for a solution to this as well.  

I had found something on the NI forums, but it looks like it only works for TestStand 4.1.1. :

Runstate.Root.Locals.DatabaseOptions.ConnectionString

However, I'm using TestStand 2013 and 2016 and this expression doesn't appear to be valid for these versions.

 

Edit: After some digging, I found that it can be found at:

RunState.Root.Locals.ModelPluginConfiguration.Plugins[ARRAY]

This will return an array of configured plugins.  I'm assuming that this is going to vary for everyone, but I was able to find mine at:

RunState.Root.Locals.ModelPluginConfiguration.Plugins[1].PluginSpecific.Options.ConnectionString

I'm far from a TestStand guru, but I'm sure that I can write something to parse and find the connection string as I'm assuming that the array position may change in the future.  But I'm hoping that someone has a simpler, more robust method of getting the configured connection string.

Edited March 2, 2020 by Bryan