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Originally Posted by Abrakadabra

Thanks Joe - While we're on the subject of custom dashboards, may I ask a question?

Is there a good tutorial this year on how to write a custom Dashboard using LabView? I usually stick to text-based programming, and I will be the first to admit that I'm not that proficient in LabView, but I've used it enough to know my way around.

Last year, I tried to build a custom dashboard using LabView, and I could not for the life of me figure out how to create the custom data cluster that I needed on the LabView side. The C++ packager side was no problem, but on the LabView side, I kept getting errors when trying to create a new cluster type (sorry, I can't remember the exact specifics, but I think it was some kind of permission error that wouldn't let me update an existing library or something?). In any case, the tutorials I was able to find just sort of glanced over that step, as if it was extremely simple and done every day, but try as I might, I had no success. A nice step-by-step tutorial that includes all the details would be very helpful to us LabView novices that really only want to use LabView to create a dashboard and then go back to what we know best - text only! .

Thanks!

I recommend the video that Ben put together last year: http://www.lvmastery.com/TipJar2009-02-10