Hi S
The answer to this is sort of yes and sort of no it depend on what your VI contains. It could be just a case of opening them in 7 and then saving them so it doesn’t have to reload all the subVIs again. Or you might not be able to with out to a lot of rebuilding.
For starters any tool kits you where using with LabVIEW 5 you will need to upgrade them to use with LabVIEW 7 other wise you won’t have some of the functions.
I don’t know what hardware you are using but you probly will have to upgrade your drivers so that they have LabVIEW 7 support.
What you might want to try is back up all you LabVIEW 5 VIs to a folder then uses the mass compile in LabVIEW 7 (open a blank VI click tools>>advanced>>mass compile, it will ask for a folder to compile point it at you LV 5 vi and click ok) then try and open them.
The best thing to do is just try it. If it can’t find a subVI when it tries to load and you can’t find it in the LV directory files then skip to the next one. When you open the VI it will have a broken arrow but you should just be able to replace the missing VI with the new version from the block diagram pallets.
If you have any specific problem when you are up grading please give some further details
Regards
Tim
AE NI UK and Ireland Technical support
