NI TestStand ATML Toolkit Version 2013

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1 RELEASE NOTES NI ATML Toolkit Version 2013 These release notes contain NI ATML Toolkit 2013 system requirements, installation instructions, information about new features, and other changes since the ATML Toolkit Contents Getting Started... 1 New Users... 1 New ATML Toolkit Users... 1 Recommended System Requirements... 2 Directory Structure... 4 Installation Instructions... 5 Activating ATML Toolkit Licenses... 6 Migrating to ATML Toolkit 2013 from ATML Toolkit What s New in ATML Toolkit Getting Started The ATML Toolkit adds functionality to for translating an ATML Test Description (TD) file to a sequence file and LabVIEW and LabWindows/CVI code modules and updates the ATML Test Results (TR) report generator. New Users If you are a new user, National Instruments recommends completing the tasks listed in the New Users section of the Guide to Documentation topic of the NI Help, which is located by default at <>\Doc\Help\TSHelp.chm. New ATML Toolkit Users To familiarize yourself with the ATML Toolkit, explore the NI ATML Toolkit Help, which is located by default at <>\Doc\Help\TSATHelp.chm. The NI ATML Toolkit Help contains information about the toolkit features and functionality. You can view the NI ATML Toolkit Help as a part of the NI Help. Note The ATML Toolkit documentation refers to XML concepts and assumes that you have a working knowledge of ATML, the ATML TD standard, the ATML Test Results and Session Information standard, XML, XML Path Language (XPath), XML Schema Document (XSD), and XQuery. Refer to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) website, located at for more information about

2 these technologies. You can find additional resources and tutorials online to help you learn these technologies. Refer to the ATML TD Standards topic in the NI ATML Toolkit Help for more information about the ATML TD standard. Refer to the ATML Test Results Reports topic in the NI Help for more information about the ATML Test Results and Session Information standard. Recommended System Requirements National Instruments recommends the following system requirements to run the ATML Toolkit Minimum system requirements follow in parentheses ( 2010). Refer to the NI Release Notes for information about the recommended system requirements for. 70 MB of free hard disk space. Use the Microsoft Windows operating systems and service packs described in Table 1 with the ATML Toolkit 2013: Table 1. Recommended and Required Windows Operating System Service Packs Operating System SP SP Windows 8 Windows 7 Service Pack 1, Professional, Service Pack 1, Starter Edition Service Pack 1, Starter Edition Starter Edition Windows Vista Windows Server 2008 R2 (64-bit), R2 (64-bit), R2 (64-bit) R2 (64-bit) Windows Server 2003 R2 (32-bit), R2 (32-bit), R2 (32-bit) R2 (32-bit) Windows XP Service Pack 3 Service Pack 3 Service Pack 3 Service Pack 3 2 ni.com NI ATML Toolkit Release Notes

3 does not support Guest user accounts on Windows. supports Administrator and Limited accounts on Windows 8/7/Vista and Administrator, Power Users, and Users accounts on Windows XP. Note This version of the ATML Toolkit supports, and was tested with, the latest operating system service packs that were available at the time this version of the ATML Toolkit was released. National Instruments recommends using the ATML Toolkit with the latest operating system service pack. Use the following Microsoft software with the ATML Toolkit 2013: Microsoft Internet Explorer version 7.0 or later Microsoft.NET Framework 4.5 or 4.0 Use the National Instruments application development environments (ADEs) described in Table 2 with the ATML Toolkit 2013: Table 2. Supported National Instruments ADEs Version LabVIEW Support ATML TD Translator Plug-in Support for Custom Code Generator 2013 Full support: 2010 SP1 or later Not allowed: or earlier 2012 SP1 Full support: 2009 SP1 or later Not allowed: or earlier Full support: 2010 SP1 or later Not allowed: 8.5 or earlier Full support: 2009 SP1 or later Not allowed: 8.5 or earlier 2010/ 2010 SP1 Full support: or later Not allowed: or earlier Full support: or later Not allowed: 8.5 or earlier NI ATML Toolkit Release Notes National Instruments 3

4 Table 2. Supported National Instruments ADEs (Continued) Version ATML TD Translator Plug-in Support for Custom Code Generator LabWindows / CVI Support 2013 Full support: 2009 SP1 or later Not allowed: 7.0 or earlier 2012 SP1 Full support: or later Not allowed: 7.0 or earlier Full support: 2009 SP1 or later Not allowed: 8.1 or earlier Full support: or later 8.5 Not allowed: 8.1 or earlier 2010/ 2010 SP1 Full support: or later Not allowed: or earlier Full support: or later Not allowed: 8.1 or earlier The ATML Toolkit supports version 1.01 of the ATML TD standard, which is an approved standard under IEEE 1671 Standard for Automatic Test Markup Language (ATML) for Exchanging Automatic Test Equipment and Test Information via XML. The ATML Toolkit supports the approved version 6.01, the unapproved version 5.0, and the approved version 2.02 of the ATML Test Results and Session Information schema, which is a component standard of IEEE 1636 Software Interface for Maintenance Information Collection Analysis (SIMICA). Refer to the IEEE website at for more information about these standards. Note No plans exist to approve version 5.0 of the ATML Test Results and Session Information schema. Directory Structure To comply with Windows 8/7/Vista restrictions on writing to the Program Files directory and to improve usability for Windows XP users who do not have access to the Program Files directory, installs files in the following directories: <> Located by default at C:\Program Files\National Instruments\ on Windows 32-bit systems and at C:\Program Files (x86)\ National Instruments\ on Windows 64-bit systems. < Public> Located by default at C:\Users\Public\Documents\ National Instruments\ on Windows 8/7/Vista and at C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\National Instruments\ on Windows XP. 4 ni.com NI ATML Toolkit Release Notes

5 < Application Data> Hidden by default and located at C:\ProgramData\ National Instruments\ on Windows 8/7/Vista and at C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\National Instruments\ on Windows XP. < Local Application Data> Hidden by default and located at <User Directory>\AppData\Local\National Instruments\ on Windows 8/7/Vista and at <User Directory>\Local Settings\Application Data\National Instruments\ on Windows XP. Refer to the Directory Structure topic in the NI Help for more information about these directories and the files installs. Installation Instructions The ATML Toolkit installation program installs the ATML TD translator files to the < Public>\Components\Translators directory and updates the existing process models and report generator files located in the <>\ Components\Models\Models directory. The toolkit also adds a Configure ATML TD Translator option to the Tools menu in for launching the ATML Test Description Translator Configuration dialog box. Note Because the installer includes a dependency on the Process Model Installer component, you must uninstall 2012 SP1, 2010 SP1, or 2010 to remove the corresponding process model updates the ATML Toolkit installs. National Instruments recommends exiting all programs before running the ATML Toolkit installer. Applications that run in the background, such as virus scanning utilities, might cause the installer to take longer than necessary to complete. You must exit the Sequence Editor and any User Interface before you install the toolkit. Complete the following steps to install the ATML Toolkit. 1. Visit ni.com/info and enter the Info Code ATML_Download to download the ATML Toolkit files to install. 2. Log on as an administrator or as a user with administrator privileges. 3. Double-click the NITSATMLToolKit2013.exe file you downloaded and follow the instructions that appear on the screen. National Instruments recommends installing the complete ATML Toolkit program for each version of you have installed. If you perform a custom installation and do not install all the toolkit features, you can run the installation program again later to install additional features. After the toolkit installation completes, you can begin using the toolkit functionality in. Refer to the Getting Started with the ATML TD Translator topic in the NI ATML Toolkit Help for more information about getting started with the toolkit features. NI ATML Toolkit Release Notes National Instruments 5

6 Activating ATML Toolkit Licenses After you install the ATML Toolkit, you must use the NI Activation Wizard to activate the software or initiate the evaluation period for the software. You must have the serial number and the name of the documentation kit to activate the ATML Toolkit. You can find both of these items on the Certificate of Ownership card included in your documentation kit. Refer to the Activating Your Software topic in the NI Help for more information about how to activate National Instruments software. Migrating to ATML Toolkit 2013 from ATML Toolkit 1.0 If you are migrating from the ATML Toolkit 1.0, you must run the Sequence File Updater application included with the ATML Toolkit installer to convert any sequence file you originally translated using the ATML Toolkit 1.0 to a sequence file you can incrementally update using the ATML Toolkit Sequence File Updater Application The ATML Toolkit 2010 or later changes the prefixes of the types contained in the ATMLTDTypes.ini and ATMLTD_IEEE1641_Types.ini type palette files and also renames the Attributes subproperty of the types as ATMLAttributes. As a result of these naming changes, the ATML Toolkit 2010 or later does not correctly incrementally update sequence files you originally translated using the ATML Toolkit 1.0. Refer to the NI ATML Toolkit Help for more information about these naming changes. You can use the Sequence File Updater application to convert sequence files you originally translated using the ATML Toolkit 1.0 to a sequence file you can use for an incremental update using the ATML Toolkit 2010 or later. Complete the following steps to install and launch the Sequence File Updater application. 1. Copy the ATMLSequenceFileConverter directory from the ATML Toolkit installer directory to a directory on the computer. 2. Double-click SequenceFileConverter.exe, located in the ATMLSequenceFileConverter directory, to launch the Update Sequence Files Translated with the ATML Toolkit 1.0 dialog box. 3. Use the Path of Sequence File to be Updated control to specify the path of the sequence file translated using the ATML Toolkit Optionally, use the Path of Test Description File (Optional) control to specify the path of the source TD file used to generate the sequence file, if the source TD file is available. 5. Click OK to update the sequence file for the ATML Toolkit 2010 or later. Refer to the NI ATML Toolkit Help for more information about how the Sequence File Updater application updates the sequence file for the ATML Toolkit 2010 or later and for information about using command-line syntax to specify a sequence file and a source TD file to update. 6 ni.com NI ATML Toolkit Release Notes

7 What s New in ATML Toolkit 2013 This section describes the new features in the ATML Toolkit 2013 and other changes since the ATML Toolkit You can now generate XML reports that validate against the approved version 6.01 of the ATML Test Results and Session Information schema that the ATML standard defines. You can also continue to generate reports that validate against the non-finalized version 5.0 or approved version 2.02 of the schema. Select ATML 6.01 Standards Report Document from the Report Format ring control on the Contents tab of the Report Options dialog box to generate an ATML report that validates against version 6.01 of the schema. provides the following style sheets, located in the <>\ Components\Models\Models\ATML\Stylesheets directory, for generating an ATML Test Results 6.01 report. You can customize the style sheets directly. TR6_Expand.xsl Displays reports similar to TR6_report.xsl, with expandable and collapsible sections for each step or for the entire report. TR6_Horizontal.xls Displays reports in a horizontal, tabular, indented, format with data for each step in one or more rows. TR6_report.xls Displays reports in a vertical, tabular, indented format with data for each step in multiple rows. Customizable, color-coded rows visually seperate relevant information, such as step group, status, and so on. The ATML Test Results report generator extension DLL can implement the following new functions to modify the content of the ATML TR report. Event_Extension Parameter_Extension TestResults_TestResult_Extension Refer to the NI Trademarks and Logo Guidelines at ni.com/trademarks for more information on National Instruments trademarks. Other product and company names mentioned herein are trademarks or trade names of their respective companies. For patents covering National Instruments products/technology, refer to the appropriate location: Help»Patents in your software, the patents.txt file on your media, or the National Instruments Patents Notice at ni.com/patents. You can find information about end-user license agreements (EULAs) and third-party legal notices in the readme file for your NI product. Refer to the Export Compliance Information at ni.com/legal/export-compliance for the National Instruments global trade compliance policy and how to obtain relevant HTS codes, ECCNs, and other import/export data National Instruments. All rights reserved C-01 Sep13