The FieldPoint software consists of several components; a configuration utility, server, and language specific interface (several of which are available). The language specific interfaces and the configuration utility both provide interface capability to the FieldPoint server.
The FieldPoint Server is a background process. It will be started when either a FP Open.vi is run or when the newer (LabVIEW 7 or later) FP Read/FP Write/FP Advise VIs are used with the "purple wire" FieldPoint Tag. Because the server is a background process, which may be called only intermittently, it becomes necessary to tell it when to shut down. With that said, the FieldPoint Server will shut itself down when the calling interface is no longer active, so it is not strictly necessary to use the Close FieldPoint VI in LabVIEW 7 or later.
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Aaron
LabVIEW Champion, CLA, CPI
