Announcing the NI Idea Exchange!

I am happy to announce a new feature available to our community members! The NI Idea Exchange is a product feedback forum where NI R&D and users work together to submit ideas, collaborate on their development, and vote for the ones they like best. Right now we only offer the LabVIEW Idea Exchange but hope to offer Idea Exchanges that feature additional products in the future. Post an idea or add your opinion on an existing one today!
Be sure to check out the NI Idea Exchange tour from LabVIEW Community Manager Todd Sierer:
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Laura
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It seems it is impossible to float the "ideas" board, even though the button exists. Is this by design or an oversight?
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Picture in a Comment on the LabVIEW Idea Exchange

How do you post a picture in a Comment on the LabVIEW Idea Exchange?
Richard
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altenbach wrote:
Broken Arrow wrote:
How do you post a picture in a Comment on the LabVIEW Idea Exchange?
Submit the comment without picture, the edit it.
Once you edit the comment, you have the full editor, including the "attach" button.
Now attach the image and submit the edited comment.
Now edit it again and embed the attachment (you only see it whe editing).
Do all this quickly so you don't run out of time.
Laura,
Since the last forum update, we can no longer attach anything when editing an idea so these instructions are no longer valid. Can we have the old functionality back? Please?
Thanks!
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Memory usage of big Array in sub-VI (was: Allow the creation of "Inplace"-VIs of Idea Exchange)

Hi,
this thread is based on my post in the LabVIEW idea exchange.
I put my VIs in the attached .rar file.
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Marc
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That would be a good explanation. There was a thread on something very similar to this recently. Can't remember exactly the topic but Daniel's answer certainly triggered some memories of a very similar discussion taking place.
I think it had to do with LV assigning a Array created as a constant as Read-only so in order to make changes to it it needs to be copied to a new memory location, thus leaving the constant unchanged.
I wonder how it performs in other LV versions.
Shane.
PS: Found the thread. HERE.
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Why is the Real-Time Idea Exchange completely ignored?

Just looked at the LabVIEW Real-Time Idea Exchange and noticed that only one idea is marked completed, and two more (both posted in 2009, nearly 5 years ago) are "In Development." Those ideas aren't even the top-kudoed ones. NI - why ask for ideas for improvements, and then not implement any of them? (Yes, I have a personal interest here - the second-most kudoed idea in the real-time area is one of mine.)

First off let me say thanks to you and all of the Idea Exchange contributors. The whole purpose of the Idea Exchange is for you, the users of the NI Platform, to bring your considerable experience to the table as we continue adding features and functionality to the NI Platform. Your passion is one of the primary forces that causes the NI Platform to grow and change in varous ways so that the application challenges of scientists and engineers all over the world can be solved.
There are many user suggestions across the whole Idea Exchange for us to weigh when considering how to allocate our development resources. We try to judiciously consider which ideas will have the biggest impact on the NI Platform users, and as a result we often have to say "no" or "wait" to some ideas so we can say "yes" to others. You're definitely correct that the statuses need to be updated and I'll be doing so in the near future. Though this may give the impression of being ignored, I want to assure you that the ideas are read and evaluated by the R&D and Product Marketing departments with careful thought and deliberate intent.
We hope that events such as NIWeek bolster your confidence in the progress of the NI Platform as you see the new hardware and software features being introduced. Though you may not see an immeadiate reward for your dilligence in suggesting ideas, please continue submitting your ideas. The long term effect will be a powerful platform of products designed to meet the community's needs. Thank you for your continued support and engagement.
Deborah Y.
LabVIEW Real-Time Product Marketing Manager
Certified LabVIEW Architect
National Instruments

Support the launch of an NI TestStand Idea Exchange!

Calling all TestStand users!
While I love TestStand, I've got some ideas on how it could be improved, and I'm sure you do too. NI recently launched a new platform for getting and tracking ideas on how to improve thier products called the NI Idea Exchange. If you haven't seen what it's about, see the intro video here and then have a wander through the wildly successful LabVIEW Idea Exchange here.
There's already a LabVIEW Idea Exchange, a LabVIEW RT Idea Exchange and a LabVIEW FPGA Idea Exchange, so why not a TestStand Idea Exchange? Well, setting it up and supporting it takes time and resources, so, we need to let NI know that we think having one is worthwhile. If you're interested in furthering the development of TestStand, you need to let NI know that you're interested in a TestStand Idea Exchange! If the idea of a TestStand Idea Exchange appeals to you, please post here to show your support.
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Great idea!

Make "idea exchange" read-only til 2015!!!

why would you just make 'All of the hard work and deep thought that went into most of those ideas, as well as some very well-thought-out replies', just vanish!!????? now there's no way to crosscheck if an idea has been sent in b4....please put it back up in forum, even if you have to make it read only......please tell me you are going to migrate the old idea exchange and all of its content into the new 2015 version of idea exchange...please ? it shows such disregard for us if you don't
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New Idea Exchange?

I think there should be a new board under the Idea Exchanges for new features for the forums. The only one I can think of that I would post there are this and this.
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You may be interested in reading the thread Idea Exchange for Forums. (Hint: the most important post is the last one. )
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24 Great Ideas from Idea Exchange for you to Kudos

There are 1140 ideas on the LabVIEW Idea Exchange right now. That's a lot of ideas, and it doesn't even count the RT or FPGA exchanges. Reading through all of them is something most of you can't spend time doing. Some of the ideas quickly garner a lot of Kudos, and those jump to the top of the lists and get attention from NI. Others are good, but they languish, lost in the noise.
I have read them all, generally by staying up-to-date on the forum ever since its inception. I kudos'd many as I went. Over the weekend, I went through all of the ideas I had kudos'd and picked out a set that I think a lot of customers would want but that don't have the high Kudos ratings. Maybe these got posted on a weekend or holiday. Maybe the title is a bit misleading and you didn't bother to read it. Or maybe you've just stopped reading the Idea Exchange because you couldn't keep up with the wash of words fellow wire workers are writing. Perhaps this simplified menu will be a bit easier to browse.
To be clear: I'm not including any of the ideas that already have high Kudos counts. Those are great ideas, but they've already got their time in the sun. These are the little quiet ideas that I think might make a big impact on your productivity, your VI's functionality or your VIs performance. All of these had fewer than 100 Kudos when I made this list. Full disclosure: Two ideas on the list (12 & 23) are ones I submitted to the Exchange. I think they warrant being on the list, but maybe I'm biased because they happen to affect the areas of LV I use most. You be the judge... :-)
User-defined partial Highlight Execution (so you only slow down execution in the "interesting" part ...
Simpler Array Size (shows N terminals where N is the number of array dimensions instead of a single ...
Conditional auto-indexing for output arrays (for when you need to filter an array down to just the s...
(and I should also mention its companion idea, although this one has 102 Kudos: Add a Concatenate Indexing option for arrays leaving For Loops
Right-Click on FP Terminal to add Event case for that control
Make "TypeDef" the default choice in the control editor
Make-mouse-wheel-scroll-the-string-control-indicator (and other things that should recognize scroll ...
Adding a "don't wait until done" option to the Call By Ref node
CTRL-Double-Click on a VI in project windows should open Block Diagram directly
Scroll-Bar-Property-for-Clusters
(10 and 11 go together) "Create-SubVI" or "New V" DEFAULT VI Template
(10 and 11 go together) Create a proper connector pane when doing Edit >> Create SubVI
Tag an XControl as the default control or indicator for a LabVIEW Class (so we can finally build new...
Add a "Mouse Scroll" event
Add a Click Event (so we can stop checking for Mouse Down followed quickly by Mouse Up and just let ...
Make-project-window-dockable-and-always-on-top
Separate-label-locations-for-Controls-and-Indicators
Add symbol on string control/constant to tell when string is in slash or binary or password display ...
Add a new debug stepping button: "Finish SubVI And Close Panel" (helps to avoid panels littered all ...
Be able to Find All Instances of VI and view VI Properties when the VI is in run mode
Bad-wire-gets-cleared-automatically-when-it-can (as the idea says, hard to explain, just look at the...
Allow-vertical-scrollbar-on-arrays-with-1-visible-element (and, I'll go further and say vertical, no...
I-would-like-to-see-a-Close-Other-VI-s-option-in-the-File-Menu
Shift-Enter-should-define-word-wrap-bounds-on-Free-Labels (just like it currently does for string co...
Insert "In-Place Element structure" onto wire
There you go... 1140 down to 24. If you've got other aspects of LV you'd like to see improved, add them to the Idea Exchange.
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Mads wrote:
A good example is the fact that one of the most popular ideas ever was the idea to adjust the design of the boolean constant. Altenbach, who came up with that idea, have received less kudos for other ideas that I'm sure would give him (and us) much higher benefits. Popularity and greatness are very often two different things.
Although I get your general point, having used LV 2010 in beta for the last few months, the improvement of readability of diagrams brought by the boolean constant change cannot be understated. Tons of VIs have arrays of boolean constants on them, have boolean constants squeezed into small corners, etc, and the redesign has helped A LOT.
Speaking to your general point -- my goal was to find low-ranked ideas that I felt would have significant developer impact and give people a second chance to review those ideas. Are there other ideas among the 1000 that are worth doing? Sure. I tried to find a broad enough set that people could actually make a meaningful choice of what to kudos (any fewer and it would be akin to "hey, everyone, come vote for this particular idea"). And it does rely upon my opinion -- though I tried to use my professional opinion as someone who regularly hears user feedback to promote ideas that I think users would generally like, as opposed to my personal opinion as a LV developer to improve the areas of LV that I personally use a lot.
I know that customers like it when NI is responsive to its demands. I know that NI knows this and so is proactively trying to address concerns that make it high on the Idea Exchange. LV 2010 is coming out in August. If you look at the ideas that are tagged "In Beta", you can see the responsiveness of NI. As we start work on the next version of LV (or rather, full time work, since future versions of LV are always already in work -- we are a parallel language in so many ways), we're going to go find the next batch of ideas to implement. But I also know that there can be user fatigue with the Idea Exchange's massive amount of content. That fatigue can lead to a strange situation where NI addresses the high flying concerns and, users are still left feeling they didn't quite get what they wanted, but they maybe can't say why because, after all, NI implemented the high kudos ideas. I cherry picked some ideas that, if implemented, I think would get a lot of people saying, "Yes, LV is now better" as a way of avoiding some of that fatigue effect. Is it a list of earthshattering ideas that revolutionize LV? No. It is a list of incremental improvements that should affect lots of people and make LV recognizably better to its users.

View New Posts in Idea Exchange

Is it possible to add a feature to View the latest messages posted onto the LabVIEW Idea Exchange. The ability to sort by last message would suffice. I like to follow the discussions, but sometimes I see there's a new message, but I have to click through 40 pages to find which topic the reply was posted to.
Tim Elsey
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Certified LabVIEW Architect

Yes. That is pretty much the only way right now to be sure you get all the messages. Occasionally, I can still miss some. For instance, if I have an e-mail that I thought I clicked on and read the idea linked in it, but actually haven't. Or the way the long threads that go onto multiple pages, and I miss the last message that rolls onto a new page and I didn't realize it because the link to go to the next page is at the top of the screen. (And why don't the messages show you that 5 pages are avaible to that thread.) You can see a count of total messages. But it will show you Now 1-10, and a link to go to 11-21. But there is no link to go to the last page. You have to go through the pages one by to get the link to the following page.
The naviagation controls in the individual threads need major improvement. (i.e. jump links at the bottom as well as the top, and links that go to other places then the page that just follows your current page.) And the whole board needs a real sorting mechanism that allows you to view the newest messages whether they are the original message or comments. The "snapshot" links to the right of the screen just really don't do that.

Updated Process for the Ideas Exchange

Hey folks! Spotify Community team here.
If you've been around the Spotify Community for a while, you've probably noticed that we keep tabs on your suggestions for improving Spotify through our Idea Exchange.
In an effort to keep the Idea Exchange as organized and up-to-date as possible, we've changed the way Ideas are submitted. We've outlined the new process with a step-by-step guide below.
We hope that you continue submitting ideas to make Spotify even better. While we can't promise that we'll implement every idea that you submit, but we'll always do our best consider each one and provide updates wherever possible.
The guidelines:
Search for previously submitted ideas. Someone may have already submitted the same idea.
One idea per post. No double dipping.
Ensure the idea is implementable. Avoid posting general feedback or questions in the idea exchange--the more specific the idea the better.
Use an intuitive title.
Submitting a new idea:
1. Go to the Idea Submissions Board.
2. Click the New Idea button.
3. Enter an Idea Subject that includes one of the tags above.
4. In the Body enter a detailed description of your idea, including any screenshots or links you'd like to share.
5. Select one a platform label.
6. Then select a subcategory label.
7. Click Post.
8. One of our Idea Guardians in the Rock Star Program will analyze the idea and mark it either as a "Live Idea" or close it for a specified reason (duplicate idea, unspecified, etc). Allow us to introduce our Idea Guardians: Marco, FredJ, gprocess, Peter, dinomight, Anthony, pnc, Jordi, kbrooksc, Carina, OviiiOne, and Rodrigo.
9. If your idea reaches the Live Idea board it can then start to gain kudos and comments from other users.
10. Once your idea reaches 100+ kudos a Community Manager or Moderator will update the status to one of the following:
The Idea statuses:
New Suggestion (no status/default one): the idea was just posted, it is waiting to be reviewed by an Idea Guardian.
New Idea: this is a new and unique idea, you can add your kudos here.
Inactive Idea: Ideas that could not gather at least 25 kudos per year will get closed - you can submit this idea again if you still feel the topic should get some attention. We recommend changing the title or description if posting the same idea again.
Good Idea, give it some kudos: We like this idea. A decision has not been made but we want to see how much the Community continues to vote on it.
Under Consideration: This has been brought up internally.
Watch this space: This feature is coming. We have a rough pipeline for its release.
Not right now: We talked about this internally and it’s not on our pipeline for the next few months or more.
Case Closed: We talked about it, but we won’t be running with it. Thanks anyway!
Implemented: This feature has rolled out on the specific platform.
Needs more info: We need more clarity or information around this idea from the original poster.
Curious for more information about the Ideas Board? Check out The Ideas Board: How your feedback reaches Spotify.
Thanks for your continued feedback and contributions everyone,
The Spotify Community Team

Ah, yes, now I see it. For those of us with less than perfect vision, how about putting the text in red in the center of the page as opposed to in only slightly darker green to the right. I've never used this page before so I had no idea there even was something to select on the right hand side. Also, the first link in the first post on this page gives me this: "You do not have sufficient privileges for this resource or its parent to perform this action.Click your browser's Back button to continue.Return to my original page"

Getting FIOS Development Team to provide updates on the Idea Exchange

What do we need to do to get the FIOS App Development team to provide updates to the Idea Exchange... We have been trying to get an update on the status of a Windows 8 or Windows Phone 8 App, and no one ever seems to want to respond. It was posted and "acknowledged" back in 2012, with no Verizon update since. Every time someone tries to repost the question, it quickly get's move to the old thread and then ignored by Verizon with no other response...

What do we need to do to get the FIOS App Development team to provide updates to the Idea Exchange... We have been trying to get an update on the status of a Windows 8 or Windows Phone 8 App, and no one ever seems to want to respond. It was posted and "acknowledged" back in 2012, with no Verizon update since. Every time someone tries to repost the question, it quickly get's move to the old thread and then ignored by Verizon with no other response...

Diuplicate posts on the NI TestStand Idea Exchange

Hi Laura,
How do we get duplicates posts removed from the NI TestStand Idea Exchange.
Regards
Ray Farmer

Laura,
I thought there must have been an Option menu but couldn't initiately find it hence my post. But I have located now and notified of the duplicate.
regards
Ray
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Ray Farmer

Change 'Kudos' to 'Votes' on the idea exchange

Sometime I discuss an idea on another platform than the NI forum (Info-LabVIEW, LAVA, real life) and I advise them to vote for a particular idea on the Idea Exchange. For people foreign to the 'Kudos' term it's sounds strange, while calling it 'Votes' makes it more recognizable.
Kudo is a term mainly used on internet and in youth communities, it might be astranging to more serious programmers.
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A use case is found here, where David Ferster made his first post in 8 years to give me moral support after I pointed him to the idea on Info-LabVIEW. What he should have done is make a Kudo to the idea, but being new to the community he didn't knew what to do and did the most natural thing people do on a forum: they post.
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Finding similar ideas on the Idea exchange

Ack, I had an idea and went to the idea exchange forum. Was wondering if this idea was already there, not wanting to pollute the forum. A "broken vi" search returned 55 hits. I cannot justify the time reviewing these before adding an idea. I'd like to be able to quickly submit an idea without the stress!

Add a few more keywords to the search.
Alternatively, just post the idea and somebody will very quickly point out if it is a duplicate.
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Better search/indexing capability for the Idea Exchange Forums

Now that we are getting more ideas posted to the idea exchange it would be helpful if we could have an improved indexing and search capability. This would help to reduce the number of duplicate ideas posted. I know I have ended up posting a couple of duplicates even after searching.
Mark Yedinak
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If you ever have a specific example of the search not finding a related idea, please post it here. When I've gotten feedback about this before and then tried to search myself, it seemed like the related idea always came up. I definitely would like a specific case that I could give to our forum vendor.
I do agree, the Google like feature with misspelled words would be very helpful and I'll pass along that suggestion.
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Laura

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