Extract color planes in vision assistant

Hi!
When i try to use the "find edges" step in vision builder ai, a message tells me that the step supports only grayscale 8 bit images, while mine is a color 32 bit. i shall insert a vision assistant step to extract color planes.
But in the vision assistant, "the image is not accessible anymore", even though below in the box there is the step "original image". I can insert the image i want to work with with the step "get image", but then it works only with the one selected picture and doesnt cycle trough the folder.
What did i do wrong?
Sophia

Hello Sophia,
you can see the panel code for the vision assistant in the attachment.
A cycle through the folder with vision steps is not possible (see Link).
http://engineering.natinst.com/Applications/PSC.nsf/WebAllInfo/d4cdf720a4b9dc6186256d9800676a2d?opendocument
Kind regards.
Elmar W.
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