Post Action depending on variable

Hi,
my sequence has several subsequences with pass/fail decisions for different substeps. To save testing time my sequence does not perform the following substeps if one substep returned a FAIL as result and hence I set the Post Action On Fail: Goto cleanup.
However there are situations when I want to run all substeps also if one substep before returned a FAIL. I think a good solution would to set the Post Action differently depending on a Variable (Local, Parameter, FileGlobal, StationGlobal). For example: If the Variable is TRUE I would go to Cleanup on fail, if it is FALSE I would go to the next step on fail. I could put this into all my substeps and to change the behaviour only the variable value must be changed.
Is this possible or is there another solution for my problem?
Thanks
TT
Solved!
Go to Solution.

Ok, this is more tricky....
The problem you are facing is that the setting for the post action is defined in the step instance. You can modify that during runtime using *any* expression, but if you fail to follow the correct format there, you will produce a run-time error.
Use the Step.TS.FailActTarget to jump as you like. The Step.TS.FailAct has to be "Goto" in order for this to work.
The next keypoint is to find the correct place for that expression. Never tested that, but it should be possible to induce it into the custom condition itself.....
hope this helps,
Norbert
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I tried to put a Continue or a Break step in a subsequence that gets called as a post-action, but that doesn't work because the behavior of the Continue and Break step types is scoped to the sequence in which they reside. Is there any other way to do this? To achieve the behavior of a Continue step, I can have a post-action destination of the End step (I can't think of anything equivalent to achieve the behavior of a Break step), but the steps I am trying to configure will be predefined as templates that are dynamically built into a sequence, and the end destination will not be known at edit time.

I agree with Doug that the best way to do this is probably with two steps. I set up a For loop with a Sequence Call step and a Break step directly after it. For the Sequence Call, I have the post actions set so that if the subsequence passes, it jumps to the step after the Break, so the loop can continue. If the subsequence fails, it goes to the next step (Break step) and exits the loop.
This isn't as simple as having everything in one step, but it does seem to work for me at least. If you'd like to see this function added to the API, please feel free to post it as an idea on the TestStand Idea Exchange so that it can be considered for future versions of TestStand.
I hope that helps, and let us know if you have any further questions about it!
Daniel E.
TestStand Product Support Engineer
National Instruments

Change teststand post actions from labview

Hi,
Is there a way to change the post action of a test in teststand from Labview.
At the moment, if one of the tests fail out of limits then the post action is set to 'ON FAIL - GO TO NEXT STEP' but if the unit does not run then a diagnostics labview routine runs and at the end of that I would like to change the teststand post actions to 'ON FAIL - GO TO CLEANUP'
Can you tell me if this is possible
Thanks
Chris

Hi
Yes it should possible.
Step step = m_SequenceContext.Step; if(nValue == 0) {
step.FailAction = "Next";step.FailActionTarget = ""; }
else{step.FailAction = "Goto"; step.FailActionTarget = "<End>";
Regards
Juergen
EDIT: This example Goto Endgroup --Sorry!
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Pass parameters with Step-Post Actions-'Call Sequence' option

I have a sub-sequence which accepts a single parameter.
Ideally I would like to call this sub-sequence from several Steps, using their Post Actions property , using a Custom Condition Expression and the On Condition False: Call Sequence option.
The Call Sequence option, when selected, offers a list of sub-sequences including the one which I wish to execute, if the conditions are correct, but I see no way of passing an argument to the sub-sequence's parameter.
Is there a simple way of passing the parameter ?
Is there a syntax I could apply to the sub-sequence selected string ?

From the TestStand Help:
Call sequence—TestStand calls a sequence before continuing to the next step. You can select any sequence in the sequence file. TestStand does not pass any arguments to the sequence. If the sequence has parameters, TestStand uses their default values.
So I don't think this particular method is going to work for you. However, there are lots of ways to do this, here are a few I can think of off the top of my head (I'm sure there are more, and possibly better ones):
1. Just insert a sequence call after every applicable step with an apropriate pre-condition. This is the easiest method, but kind of messy and requires repeating the call everywhere.
2. Change the parameter to a sequence file global... ylch, I hate globals... Terrible programming practice, but it's easy .
3. Override the SequenceFilePostStep Engine Callback and put a sequence call with an appropriate pre-condition in there. This keeps you from having to repeat the code, but it will check the condition after every step executes, not just the ones you are interested in, so you may need some additional conditions.
4. Define a custom step type for these steps and use a substep to call the sequence.
Hope that helps,
Ryan K.

Post Action depending on variable

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