Pass TestStand error type directly into function parameter

Hi,
I am using TestStand 4 and Labwindows CVI 8.5.
I wonder if it is possible to pass Standard Step error type into CVI function parameters.
I think it would be more simple to pass one parameter instead of passing Error code, Error occurred state and Error message into function prototype.
I tried to use tsErrorDataType struct defined into tsutil.h into my function prototype.
In TestStand, I pass Step error type into function parameter but it does not work.
TestStand displays an error meaning parameters does not match function prototype.
Thank you for your help.

Hi Tartempion,
In order to pass the TestStand Error Container as one parameter to a function in a CVI DLL, you must use a struct that is typedef'ed and create an .fp file that is included as a type library for the DLL. When you create a .fp file to add to a DLL, the DLL will not build unless all structs/enums are typedef'ed. Thus, I wouldn't advise using the tsutil.h because you would have to go through and typedef every single struct and enum in the header file.
Instead, you can simply create a typedef'ed struct in your projects header file and create an .fp file with the struct specified as a data type. Then in TestStand, when you call the function you would need to ensure that the parameter is of Category "C Struct", and type "Error". The attached zip file contains a CVI 8.5 project that demonstrates this along with a TestStand 4.0 sequence file that demonstrates how to pass the parameter to the function by reference. In case you run into trouble creating the .fp file please refer to the following KnowledgeBase. The instructions are for enums but easily correspond to structs as well:
TestStand and LabWindows/CVI Enumeration Data Types
Hope this helps!
Manooch H.
National Instruments
Attachments:
PassTSError.zip ‏19 KB

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Thanks,
prashant

Not possible. For valid technical reasons.
Definitions are local to a database. You can define a SQL user type called TMyType in your database. I can define one in mine with the same name.
Can you now call my database, passing a collection of your TMyType to me? How do we (or Oracle) know that your definition and my definition is the same? Or if they were the same when you compiled your code (and your Oracle checked my Oracle to confirm), that they still are the same and that I did not in the meantime altered the type? Or even dropped it?
For types/collections to be transparently passed across to database links, we need something along the lines of:
a) global types
b) runtime checking of types
Both are problematic to implement and maintain. With (a) there is the issue of dependencies. The global type cannot be changed before all dependencies on all subscribers have been resolved. With (b) there is the issue of performance, checking the type definitions with every single call on the local & remote instances to compare.
It would be a nice feature to have... but it would fail to live up to expectation if not implemented in a robust and performant way.
Alternative. "Insert" data via a remote proc into a remote collection. This allows you to push data into a PGA memory structure on the remote side and when done, allows you to tell that remote proc to "flush" (forall insert/update/delete) the contents of that structure to disk.

Passing range-value into a parameter of a subreport

Hello all
I've a problem with passing a formula into a parameter of the subreport.
I'm using a SAP BW query with a data range parameter. So I have to provide a range value first for executing this query.
I'd like to execute the query with a data range between the last two weeks. For this purpose if created a formula with following code:
[dateadd('d',-14,currentdate),currentdate]
This means, the result is an array. And exactly this is the problem. Because Crystal Reports doesn't support an array as a result of a formula.
Is there an other possibility for passing the array/data range to the parameter in the subreport?
I'm using Crystal Reports for enterprise (v.14.0.2).
Kind regards,
Greg

Thanks, kglad. I was wondering about that. I thought that
putting a variable data type of :Number would have made it a
number, but I never got an error in the debugger so I thought it
was ok. I traced the data type and figured out it was actually a
string and changed the line like follows which turned the string to
an integer and made it work:
var image01ClosedPosition:Number =
parseInt(RootNode1.attributes.imageChangeX);

How to load properties from csv file directly into a .dll parameter in a test step

Hi,
I would like to take values from a property file and plug them directly into parameter used to invoke dll calls.
I have looked at examples on how to use the property loader to input test limits, but I cannot figure out how to pipe into the params.
I have tried. <step name>.Module.<param name>
step.propertieslist[0].
Any ideas?
Thanks,
m
Solved!
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I agree that it would be nice. The difference between limits and parameters though is that parameters are set dynamically. What I mean by that is you never know how many parameters a step will have until you define the module. Whereas the Limits are always set in stone. The only difference is the MultiNumeric Limit Test which is just an array that get's appended too with the same datatype. And the only acess to a parameters value is through the API unless it is a variable.
The other hard part is that you don't know the datatype of parameters. Any step can have any number of parameters as well as any datatype being passed to each individual parameter.
I think if you are set on NOT creating Locals or FileGlobals then you would need to create custom step types with subproperties that get assigned to the parameters. This could be even more painful though because now you have to maintain and support the custom step types.
The other option would be to create your own property loader step that could call in and set things in the API. HMMM now that would be an interesting project...
jigg
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What type of out put parameter should i have to pass here?

Hi all,
           I'm working on a custom function module. In that i have to call a standard function module "SAPWL_READ_STATISTIC_FILES".
This standard FM is returning the values in changing parameter "ALL_STATS" of type "SAPWL_ALLSTATS". SAPWL_ALLSTATS is a structure in a pool structure "sapwl".
My problem is when i'm testing the standard FM with some input parameters its throughing some values into changing parameter "ALL_STATS", but in my custom FM for the same standard FM i'm passing the same values its not throughing any values into that changing parameter "ALL_STATS".
So can anybody check this standard FM and suggest me how to declare the output parameter type and pass? Its a pool structure there i'm getting problem to define it. Help me out please.
Thanks & Regards
Naidu

Hello Naidu
Using the sample report ZUS_SDN_READ_STATISTICAL_FILES I can fetch a couple of records from the system (ERP 6.0).
If your selection does not work within your custom function module then perhaps there is some conversion problem with the input data (keep in mind that the SAP-GUI takes care of all conversions, e.g. a date '10.11.2008' is automatically converted into '20081110').
*& Report ZUS_SDN_READ_STATISTICAL_FILES
*& Thread: What type of out put parameter should i have to pass here?
*& <a class="jive_macro jive_macro_thread" href="" __jive_macro_name="thread" modifiedtitle="true" __default_attr="1119462"></a>
REPORT zus_sdn_read_statistical_files.
TYPE-POOLS: sapwl.
DATA: gt_stats    TYPE STANDARD TABLE OF sapwl_statrec.
DATA: gd_msg      TYPE bapi_msg.
START-OF-SELECTION.
CALL FUNCTION 'SAPWL_READ_STATISTIC_FILES'
    EXPORTING
      read_client                 = syst-mandt
*     READ_TIME                   = '001000'
*     READ_TIME_DELTA             = '000200'
*     READ_EXCLUDE_USERNAME       =
*     READ_START_DATE             = SY-DATUM
*     READ_START_TIME             = ' '
*     READ_USERNAME               =
*     READ_WORKPROCESS            = 'FFFF'
*     STATISTIC_FILE              = ' '
*     AS_STATISTIC_FILE           = ' '
*     NO_BUFFER_FLUSH             = ' '
*     WAIT_FACTOR                 = 150
*     INCLUDE_APPL_STAT           = ' '
*   IMPORTING
*     PROBLEMS                    =
*     TOTAL_RECS_READ             =
*   TABLES
*     PROTOCOL                    =
*     RFC_RETURNS                 =
*     SERVER_LIST                 =
    CHANGING
      all_stats                   = gt_stats.
DESCRIBE TABLE gt_stats.
WRITE syst-tfill TO gd_msg NO-ZERO.
CONDENSE gd_msg NO-GAPS.
CONCATENATE gd_msg 'Records found' INTO gd_msg
    SEPARATED BY space.
MESSAGE gd_msg TYPE 'I'.
END-OF-SELECTION.
Regards
Uwe

Table parameter Types for this Function module

I am using K_HIERARCHY_TABLES_READ to get the profit centers for a given profit center group.
I have the following declarations for the parameters of this FM:
TYPE-POOLS: gseth.
Declarations for Profit Center Group
DATA: g_pcgrp     TYPE rgsbs-class,
      g_setid     TYPE rgsbs-setnr,
      g_info      TYPE grphinfo,
      g_overwrite TYPE sy-datar.
DATA:
      i_nodes      TYPE STANDARD TABLE OF gseth_node_tab,
      i_values     TYPE STANDARD TABLE OF gseth_val_tab,
      i_masterdata TYPE STANDARD TABLE OF grpmdline.
When this is run, its taking me into a dump and it says:
The reason for the exception is:
The system tried to pass internal table "I_NODES" to the formal
parameter "T_NODES", but a type conflict occurred between the
formal and the actual parameter.
Pl help me to correct this dump and error.
Thanks
Kiran

DATA:
i_nodes TYPE STANDARD TABLE OF gseth_node_tab,
i_values TYPE STANDARD TABLE OF gseth_val_tab,
i_masterdata TYPE STANDARD TABLE OF grpmdline.
change your declarations
to the below...
DATA:
i_nodes TYPE gseth_node_tab,
i_values TYPE gseth_val_tab,
i_masterdata TYPE STANDARD TABLE OF grpmdline.

Parameter not passed in error

I have Flex 3.0.214193 and CF 8,0,0,176276 and Oracle
10.2.0.3.
I've been search for several days for an answer to this one.
There is very little out there about this type of error, but then
there is very little about any problems with Flex and ColdFusion.
In Flex, I have two comment fields. the .cfc has two update
functions that update the comments, because they are in two
different tables. The first update works like a champ. The second
one consistantly shows this error in the CF application log: The
NEWENGREMARK parameter to the updateEng function is required but
was not passed in. I've used to Alert.Show to verify that Flex does
have a value in that variable when it calls the .cfc. I've even
tried passing the first variable that worked in the first update,
and then a litteral value. Everything yields the same cryptic error
message. I must be looking at the wrong thing.
The only things I've found on the web about this, say the
variables should have a scope (is that a scope in Flex or in the
.cfc) and the column names should be in upper case (because it's
Oracle).
Here's the .cfc code (is that where the error is, or is it in
Flex?). The UpdateDescription function works, but the UpdateEng
doesn't.
Thanks for any help, or spelling errors you can point out.
Scott

BKBK,
That is part of my thrashing about, trying to either make it
work or get a real error message. I changed the Flex and .cfc to
pass the previously missing parameter to the descriptionUpdate
function. If I pass the newENGRemark variable to the first update
function, everything is fine; if I pass it to the second update
function, it is missing.
I changed the Flex and .cfc be all upper case and all lower
case, but there was no difference.
I created a .cfm page to cfinvoke the same .cfc; then I
passed some hardwired literals to the .cfc - everything was fine.
I put the Flex code back to only pass two parameter to each
update function, but in the .cfc, in the second update, I added the
default option to both of the parameters. That worked; it went
ahead and updated the record with the defaults. (That's not really
what I wanted to do for production) . I changed the .cfc so the
newENGRemark was not required. Then it said the second parameter
was missing. In the Flex code, you can see that I am passing a
litteral, 925001, to the .cfc. The parameter exists in Flex, but
when it gets to the .cfc, it doesn't exist.
This problem has been beating me for too long. I think I
will restructure the database so that I can do what I need to with
one update function call. The initial test seems to show this will
work.
Basically I am floored by this problem. Everything I've
tried to get around it or get a real error hasn't worked. Could it
be something to do with Oracle CLOB data type? Because I was able
to make it work by using a .cfm to cfinvoke the .cfc, it seems that
the problem would have to be in Flex. But the Flex only seems to
have a problem with the second update, UpdateEng. So I deleted the
second update, copied the first, and changed the the minimum to
make it work, but it didn't. Then I switched the order in the Flex
and .cfc to have the second update first - same difference. Then I
even took out the descriptionUpdate altogether, but it still gave
that same error.
Does anyone know of some diagnostic tool that can catch what
is being passed on the AMF channel? Can you do a dump or a debug of
a .cfc that is called by Flex?
Scott

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