Procedure of Downloading Bitfile to EtherCAT

[CS. Hara]

When LabVIEW 2009 and prior, after the compilation of FPGA VI, the bitfile was automatically downloaded to EtherCAT. However, from 2010, that process became manual; after the compilation, you need to go under the Build Specification, right click on the bitfile created, and select Download. Regular cRIO does it automatically, and I don't see the point of manually downloading it.

Does anyone know the point of doing this? And if it was not intended, I like auto download a lot better. But at the same time, 2009 and prior, the bitfiles were not shown under the build specification, which bothers me also. So the conclusion is that, I think it will be better to show the bitfile under the Build Speficcation AND download it automatically to EtherCAT.

[CS. Hara]

Basically, I suggest that customers could change the settings between auto and manual, for some the extra steps are just useless extra steps.