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Howto make ProcessModel calculate TOTAL steps for calling sequence file?
Solved!
I've made a custom Operator Interface and I'd like to support a progress bar to give the user an indication of how far along they are. I've already setup the call-back infrastructure so that the progress bar will update based on a User Message from the engine.
In the process model itself, I've set up a "ProcessModelPostStep" callback (the purple one) so that after every step in the calling sequence file I increment an internal counter and send that data along with the User Message.
The only missing part is knowing how to calculate the TOTAL number of steps in the calling sequence file. I can get total number of SEQUENCES defined in the calling file but I do not how to recursively loop over each sequence call from the top down counting all the steps in the called sequence.
Appreciate any help in getting this last piece in place.
Thanks!
The code below is crashing LabVIEW at the moment, but I think it's close to the solution. The code is in a recursive VI. Call it with the sequence file reference (perhaps from SequenceContext) and with MainSequence. For every step in every group for the sequence, check if it's a sequence call. If it's a sequence call, get the sequence name and call the recursive VI again. If it's not a sequence call, increment the counter.
Hopefully, this will get you started and I'll try to get it running myself at the same time.
I have a better solution in the pictures below. The code snippet is the code called by TestStand to initiate the recursion.
The attached code is the recursive call. It's similar to my first post, but fixed a bug with typecasting references.
This should get the total step count. The code works under a few assumptions:
1. All of the called sequences are in the same sequence file. (You can add steps to also get the sequence file path and get the sequence from there.)
2. There are no Asynchronous LabVIEW steps in TestStand. (These are treated as Sequence calls in the API and you would have to add code to sort them out.)
This is awesome, thanks so much!
Before I saw your 2nd answer with the code I created a new TestStand sequence and started converting your algorithm into TestStand API calls using 'Statement' steps with a Reursive sequence call back to itself.
I just ran a test 60 seconds ago and my error was because the sequence call was NOT into the same sequenceFile, its into a different sequence file. I see you listed that one caveat so now I need to ferret out how to get that info; my guess is from the SequenceCallModule?
Also, I do not have any async calls so I'm good there.
@pulidotech wrote:Your recursive VI will have to change to get the Sequence File Path instead of the sequence file reference. Good Luck!
Is there not a method that takes a Sequence File Path as input and returns a reference to it so I can keep all else the same and just add that extra step?
I've attached my nearly complete sequence. I just need to figure out what needs to go in the "Get Next Sequence File Ref" step and I should be golden. Any ideas?
P.S.
I forgot to mention that this ‘CountTotalSteps’ sequence will be called from my ProcessModel in the ‘DoPreUUT’ sequence.
The two parameters into this sequence will be initialized as follows:
sequenceFileRef = #NoValidation,RunState.ProcessModelClient.AsPropertyObjectFile.AsSequenceFile
sequenceName = “MainSequence”
Thank you for all your help. Using your LabVIEW algorithm and suggestions I was able to roll everything into a TestStand sequence that supports calling into multiple sequence files.
I've attached a sequence file that contains the recursive sequence. This sequence just needs to be put in the 'DoPreUUT' sequence of the process model with the following initial values:
sequenceFileRef = #NoValidation,RunState.ProcessModelClient.AsPropertyObjectFile.AsSequenceFile
sequenceName = "MainSequence"
runningTotal = Locals.runningTotal // Locals.runningTotal is initialized to 0
