Accessing Your Files with DataPlugins
- Updated2025-10-28
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Accessing Your Files with DataPlugins
Use DataPlugins to access your files with SystemLink for further processing, indexing, or analysis. NI provides more than 200 DataPlugins for common file formats for download. If you cannot find a DataPlugin for your file format, you can create your own. NI provides documentation and examples to code your plugin in VBS, Python, LabVIEW or C++.
| Goal | Task |
|---|---|
| Use ready DataPlugins from NI for common file formats. | Search for your file format and download the corresponding DataPlugin from the DataPlugins page on ni.com. |
| Create your own DataPlugin. | Follow the basic instructions and example code to create DataPlugins for NI software like SystemLink, DIAdem, or LabVIEW. Use the programming languages VBS for DataPlugins in DIAdem, Python, C++, or G. |
| Enable Data Preprocessor and DataFinder instances to scan and process specific file types with a dedicated DataPlugin. | Registering DataPlugins to Index and Process New File Types |
| Add a file extension to an already registered DataPlugin. | Adding File Extensions to a Registered DataPlugin |
Related Information
- DataPlugins
- Python DataPlugins
- NI DataPlugin SDK for C++
- LabVIEW DataPlugin SDK
- Registering DataPlugins to Index and Process New File Types
Register a DataPlugin so that DataFinder instances can index files with the related extensions and Data Preprocessor instances can scan and process files with the related extensions.
- Adding File Extensions to a Registered DataPlugin
Add new file extensions to a registered DataPlugin to enable DataFinder instances to index files with these extensions and Data Preprocessor instances to scan and process files with these extensions.