Labview 7 index waveform array by channel name string

I was messing around with the index array waveform function with a waveform array(3 elements). I had used the set waveform attribute vi with the name input set to "Channel Name." The index waveform array function would not return any data when I was passing a particular channel name to it. Inside the vi I noticed that the name input has to have the format "NI_ChannelName" to match the string constant. Is this explained in the documentation anywhere?? Wouldn't it be more useful to make this string constant a string control input that we wired data into?? Then we could index the waveform array based on any name input that we set with the waveform attribute function.

Hi 08,
despite reanimating an 11 year old thread that information you requested is given in the "Set Waveform Attribute Function" help as written by Brandon…
Best regards,
GerdW
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