Custom Dashboard
 

My team and I are wanting to create a custom dashboard to use with our robot this year and were wondering which tab we needed to add the indicators to. Also there are two large loops in the block diagram. are we to pace any code in there or should we place it outside the loops. We are using labview.

Re: Custom Dashboard
 

If you put unwired indicators in the Custom or Basic tab, they will be connected automatically as SmartDashboard variables. Anywhere outside those tabs will require you to wire something to set their values explicitly.

LabVIEW code placed outside the loops will run once when the Dashboard starts. If you want it to run repeatedly, put it inside a loop. Depending on exactly what it's doing, you might find it reasonable to put it in the True case of the top loop, or you might create another loop just for your code.