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Overview
When you deploy a VeriStand Project, it locks the system definition object within the project. However, it can be beneficial to be able to look at configuration settings within the system definiton without undeploying the project. To do this, you can either right-click and the system definition in the project and select "Explore" then manually open the file on disk or use this workspace tool.
Description
The code for this is fairly simple. Since the workspace tool will run within the VeriStand context, it uses the "Get Active System Definition" function from the VeriStand palette to get the path to the system defintion then makes a sys exec call to that file path to load up the system definition file in the system explorer outside of the project.
Steps to Implement or Execute Code
You should see your system defintion open within a seperate instance of the System Explorer whether you're deployed or not.
Requirements
Software
NI LabVIEW 2014+
NI VeriStand 2014+
Hardware
None
Description-Separate-2Example code from the Example Code Exchange in the NI Community is licensed with the MIT license.