Open HTML Report in Browser (Refnum) VI
- Updated2025-07-30
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Displays an HTML report in the default Web browser. Wire data to the report in input to determine the polymorphic instance to use or manually select the instance.
If you wire a URL or path that contains a space character to this VI, the VI encodes the space as %20 before displaying the URL or HTML file in the Web browser.

Inputs/Outputs
report in
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report in is a reference to the report whose appearance, data, and printing you want to control. Use the Create Report VI to generate this LabVIEW class object.
error in (no error)
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error in describes error conditions that occur before this node runs. This input provides standard error in functionality.
report out
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report out is a reference to the report whose appearance, data, and printing you want to control. You can wire this output to other Report Generation VIs.
temporary HTML file created
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temporary HTML file created is the path in which the VI saved the temporary HTML file containing the report before displaying the HTML file in the Web browser. After the VI runs, you can delete the temporary HTML file to free disk space.
error out
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error out contains error information. This output provides standard error out functionality. |
Examples
Refer to the following example files included with LabVIEW.
- labview\examples\Report Generation\HTML Reports\HTML Report.vi
report in
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error in (no error)
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report out
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temporary HTML file created
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error out
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