Report Generation Toolkit: Page Numbering

When creating a Word Report using the Report Generation Toolkit, I am using the Word Set Page Numbering.vi to display the page numbers in the footer of each page of the report. This works fine when the include page x of n switch is turned OFF. However, when the switch is turned ON the numbers only show up in the left footer regardless of the position setting.
Is this a known bug?
If not where do I report it?
I guess I just did...

Hi Drugar,
I have filed a CAR (43K9NBF2) regarding this issue. I will look into fixing it for the next version of the Report Generation Toolkit. If you want to workaround the problem for now, go into vi.lib\addons\_office\word.llb\Word_auto_text_entry (for page number).vi. You can get a reference to the "Selection" property of the Application class. Then under Selection, get a reference to "ParagraphFormat". Then, you can set the "Alignment" property of the ParagraphFormat class.
Thanks for reporting this issue, and let me know if you have any other questions.
-D
Darren Nattinger, CLA
LabVIEW Artisan and Nugget Penman

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Hi SciManStev,
I have attached a vi where you can see how they can be made to work together. You have to design it such that one follows the other. If you don't design it that way, it results in a race condition and only one of them get executed.
Good Luck!
Warm regards,
Karunya R
National Instruments
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SciMan1.vi ‏14 KB

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I use the report generation toolkit and the Print Report.vi to print a table and some text extracted from a MS Access database. The result of this is a print out that takes up several pages.
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Good luck,
-D
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LabVIEW Artisan and Nugget Penman

Report generation toolkit and signal express user step : problem of closing reference in "Stop" event

Hi all,
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Thanks,
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Hi Callahan,
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2. Then tells the VI that SE is running the Stop event by setting the Enum found on your VI's front panel. This in turn should produce some boolean values telling your VI to execute the Stop case.
3. The VI is then run, with those values and states.
4. SE checks to see if any errors where returned.
5. Since this is the Stop event, SE releases the reference to the VI which it possesses.
Questions for you would be, is the reference to your Workbook linked to a control on your connector pane, or held in a uninitialized Shift Register. If it's held in a Shift Register, SE would not be aware of it, and would not be able to affect that reference.
Hope that helps. Feel free to post your LLB if it doesn't.
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Report Generation Toolkit missing VI

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I did attempt to do a repair on my installation of the toolkit. But as far as I can tell, this didn't do anything.
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Patrick Allen
Solved!
Go to Solution.

Darren wrote:
Back before we unified the LabVIEW and toolkit version numbers (in 2009), there were cases where we didn't change the version number in the registry for one reason or another on a minor upgrade.
Ah. This makes sense then.
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Thanks!
Message Edited by pallen on 04-15-2010 04:52 PM
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Report generation toolkit conditional format - how to?

Hi
We are using the Report generation toolkit (2010 version), and have a question regarding this tool.
I see functions for setting the number format, but not a conditional format. Does this not exist?
http://zone.ni.com/reference/en-XX/help/372120A-01/lvoffice/excel_set_cell_format/
This page refers to an example which from the name sets a conditional format. However as I understand it, this example is setting a custom number, not a conditional format.

Hi,
the simplest way to do this I guess you can provide a template for your Excel sheet, where you can set the conditional format there.
From LabVIEW you can just send the values into this sheet-template.
Maybe you can try these if you want
http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW/Using-conditional-formatting-in-excel-through-LabVIEW-activeX/td-p/1...
http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW/Excel-Colour-properties-modified-via-LabVIEW/m-p/573748?query.id=218...
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Report Generation Toolkit Print HTML Problem

Hi,
i have a problem printing a html Page at a Costumers PC with the Report Generation Toolkit.
I use LV 2012 and the Report Generation Toolkit in 32Bit Mode.
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Our Programm generates a HTML Repor which is saved without any problem.
When i then try to print it with Print Report.vi it doesent work and i get error1 out of the SubVi NI_ReportGenerationCore.lvlibrint HTML Report using IE.vi.
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I saw a very strange behavior of the IE.
When i double click the .html file the IE gets opened and displays the file properly.
When i then hit the reload button it also gets reloaded.
When i click in the browsers adress bar and hit enter (Which normaly does a reload) i get an error "Adress Bar, Adresse, access denied".
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I talked to some friends an they sad it could be that double clicking and reloding is done with the local user an the clicking and hitting enter reload is maybe the systemuser.
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How can i determin which user is used to execute a vi?
Can i influence the user?
Has anybody a solution and seen this problem?
Regards,
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If I understand your situation correctly, you are able to use the LabVIEW Report Generation Toolkit to create an HTML report, which you save as an HTML file. Can you open it in a browser and print it using the browser's Print button? I've use LabVIEW to generate HTML reports, but have never tried to print the Reports in LabVIEW -- I've always used the "browser route", myself.

Report generation toolkit: Avoid a separation of title and image at pagebreak in a work document.

I want to generate a report with the report generation toolkit in LV7.1.
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Thanks for your input. You are right, that works and could be an alternative.
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Suggestion about Report Generation Toolkit

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Hello PointOnePa,
What examples were you trying to run? Here's a good example on how to create report in Excel
http://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/epd/p/id/1001
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http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/45E349F79A55EAE6862575EF00614134
Andy Chang
National Instruments
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Difference between diadem and LabVIEW Report Generation Toolkit

I want to expand LabVIEW's reporting capabilities. Can someone tell me what the difference is between DIAdem and the LabVIEW Report Generation Toolkit for Microsoft Office.

Hello Mr Bean,
There are several major differences between the two solutions. I'll try and outline them as good as I can ...
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I recommend you check out the following link for more information: http://www.ni.com/diadem/
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Otmar
Otmar D. Foehner
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National Instruments
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"For an optimist the glass is half full, for a pessimist it's half empty, and for an engineer is twice bigger than necessary."

How do I put data into a template using the Labview report generation toolkit for Microsoft Office?

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