how to continue working on a already saved project?

[MUST23]

i made asmall project on labview thad i saved, but i can t modify and develop the project, the connections and blocs are diseabled, do you have a recommendation?

[GerdW]

Hi must,

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@MUST23 wrote:

i made asmall project on labview thad i saved, but i can t modify and develop the project, the connections and blocs are diseabled, do you have a recommendation?

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When it's a "small project" then I see two options:

1. attach the whole project so we can inspect your problem
2. start that small project over from scratch - and use a SCC tool right from the beginning!

[PalanivelThiruvenkadam]

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@MUST23 wrote:

i made asmall project on labview thad i saved, but i can t modify and develop the project, the connections and blocs are diseabled, do you have a recommendation?

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What Connections and Blocs are they? Any ActiveX Connections? 

Sometimes when you access windows application and the version gets changed you may need to properly update and re-link to work without errors (Property and Invoke node gets disabled)

Also as stated by @GerdW share the Project since it is small as you said.

[Antoniooh]

If you locked your vi, then from the menu bar go to

   File

        VI Properties (Ctrl + i)

From the drop down menu select "Protection"

Select Unlocked (no password)

[MUST23]

for my saved project, i can open Front panel, but window of Block diagram is not open , i don't see it

[MUST23]

i saved my project in a directory on my mac desktop, when I run it, the front panel opens but the other block diagram window is not found

[Antoniooh]

I've never used LabVIEW for MAC, but if you open your vi and using Ctrl+e you don't see the block diagram then you saved the vi without it's block diagram and you wont be able to get it back.

[Bob_Schor]

Before you do any more LabVIEW development, put in place a Version Control System (two that many LabVIEW developers use are GIT and Subversion), and always keep your LabVIEW development up-to-date on the VCS Repository.  Don't leave Home (or your WorkPlace) Without It!

Bob Schor

P.S. -- if, as it appears, you've "lost all of your Block Diagrams", then, one hopes, you remember enough of the code to begin to reconstruct the entire Project from scratch.  Try to adhere to the following schedule:

• Develop code for a short time (1-4 hours).
• Test enough to be certain that the (slowly-growing number of) VIs that you have written actually work (this means "Testing", which might mean that you are also developing a series of Tests to ensure the code you have actually works.  Do this before doing any more coding.
• Once the code "passes the test", commit it (I'm using "Subversion-speak" for "save it to the VCS system you are using").

[paul_a_cardinale]

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@Antoniooh wrote:

I've never used LabVIEW for MAC, but if you open your vi and using Ctrl+e you don't see the block diagram then you saved the vi without it's block diagram and you wont be able to get it back.

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There used to be a shortcut key combo to save without the BD (I don’t remember what it was).  One of my former cow-orkers would sometimes hit it by mistake when he meant to hit ctrl-S.

[Bob_Schor]

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@paul_a_cardinale wrote:

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@Antoniooh wrote:

I've never used LabVIEW for MAC, but if you open your vi and using Ctrl+e you don't see the block diagram then you saved the vi without it's block diagram and you wont be able to get it back.

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There used to be a shortcut key combo to save without the BD (I don’t remember what it was).  One of my former cow-orkers would sometimes hit it by mistake when he meant to hit ctrl-S.

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@paul_a_cardinale wrote:

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@Antoniooh wrote:

I've never used LabVIEW for MAC, but if you open your vi and using Ctrl+e you don't see the block diagram then you saved the vi without it's block diagram and you wont be able to get it back.

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There used to be a shortcut key combo to save without the BD (I don’t remember what it was).  One of my former cow-orkers would sometimes hit it by mistake when he meant to hit ctrl-S.

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What a "useful" feature!  I sure hope the PC version of LabVIEW is missing this one ...

Bob Schor