Hello,
in my company we have several big LV projects, all using a rather old and out-dated LLB which offers XML functionality.
I did a massive rework of that library and switched to the lvlibp build format. In order to ensure downwards compatibility, i even included all the VI's from the old LLB, named exactly the same way, in a "compatibility" folder inside the lvlibp.
What i had in mind is to simply replace the old llb by the lvlibp by deleting the llb from the project directory, adding up the new lvlibp version, and run Mass Compile in order to relocate the missing VI's from the LLB, which are still present in the project with exactly the same name, with only the difference that they now are located whithin the lvlibp.
My problem is, that the Mass Compile function doesn't seem to check any lvlibp contained in the project for the missing files, so this option won't work. I tried to manually replace the missing items listed in "Dependencies" in the project tree, however if i select the lvlibp in the popup file dialogue, LabVIEW refuses to accept it, as "The File You Selected Is Not A VI".
I have also tried to double-click the missing VI, which will open up the File Search dialogue. I can select the lvlibp and the correct item inside, however if i hit OK, the missing dependency that has once been on the very top of the missing dependency list, reappears at the very bottom, still as a missing dependency.
Does anybody have a solution for this? Maybe there is some tool or advanced steps to go?
I don't want to go the way to open every single VI that is utilizing the XML functions, and re-assigning the path for every single function, which would really be a pain as there are more than 100 VI's that all are calling at least 5 or more of the functions that have been moved from the LLB to the lvlibp...
Best Regards and thanks in advance...
