Creates an image of the front panel of the VI you specify in VI and appends it to a report. Wire data to the VI input to determine the polymorphic instance to use or manually select the instance.

The VI also includes an instance whose connector pane is compatible with versions of the VI in LabVIEW 6.1 and earlier.


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For an HTML report, the VI saves the image file to the temporary directory and adds a link to the image file in the report.

If a front panel is not visible, LabVIEW does not update the values in the objects on the front panel. If you call a VI whose front panel is not visible and you use the Append Front Panel Image to Report VI to create an image of the front panel, the image does not reflect any value changes that occurred when you ran the VI.

If you want the image to reflect value changes, make sure the front panel is open before any values change. If you do not want to display the front panel but want the image to reflect value changes, create a Property Node from any front panel terminal on the block diagram of the VI for which you want to create a front panel image.

Note If you set Image Format to GIF, the VI does not work when you include it in a stand-alone application.

You also can use the following methods to return a front panel image programmatically: