Save Current Development Environment

[m3rl3n]

Our company runs a script every night that closes all open LabVIEW Developement instances for license sake, so obviously I save and close my environment every day.

The problem is the next morning.  If I had 30 VIs open that say 25 were for reference and 5 I was actually coding, I now have to try to remember which were open (and the recently used isn't always a lot of help because I may open another project to answer someone's question about a different project). It can take a good deal of time before I'm bake "up and running" as the previous day! 

So if all that makes sense, how about an additional menu selection under "File" that allows the programmer to "Save Current Environment" status? And then "Load Previous Environment". Selecting that after saving all VIs and closing them would capture all open VIs and save that list to the HD, then upon starting LV in the morning, loading would open all of those previous VIs.

Actually, as I typed that I was thinking. I can write a VI to do exactly that while I wait for it to become a feature in a future release.. I will do that, but I also would like to see it incorporated as an option in LV.

Dan

[RavensFan]

That is just messed up if your company is running scripts like that.

I think you have a valid idea, which is why I kudoed this idea Reopen VIs that were open when the project was last closed when I saw it.

[Don_Phillips]

Have you tried shutting the computer down each night using the Hybernate setting?

"hibernation puts your open documents and programs on your hard disk, and then turns off your computer"

Perhaps this might be a decent work around in the meantime -- assuming it works 

[Darren]

Any idea that has received less than 4 kudos within 4 years after posting will be automatically declined.

[RavensFan]

I'd argue that this should be marked as a duplicate of the post I linked as opposed to outright declined.   But that would just be a technicality on how the ideas are categorized.

[Darren]

Duplicate of http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW-Idea-Exchange/Reopen-VIs-that-were-open-when-the-project-was-last-cl...