Anything onto pallete in any folder?

[jyang72211]

Hi all,

Smercurio mentioned a very good point to me, and he said that I can put anything onto pallete from any folder through pallete setup.  Before that, I was stuck with the concept that I must put my VIs into user.lib in order for anything to show on on my pallete. 

I guess I still have one questions.  Does tha concept apply to that stuff that I must put into the instru.lib?  Can I put my fluke driver, modus driver, etc anywhere else well which keeping them functional and on the pallete?

Yik

[Dennis_Knutson]

You can link a palette to VIs wherever you want to place them. I typically leave drivers in instr.lib because I don't feel like searching an entire hard driver for them. If you use project drivers, instr.lib is where the project expects to find them. If you want to rebuild the project to point to a different folder, that's up to you but it seems a waste of time to me. If you use the driver search function in LabVIEW, instr.lib is the default install location.

[smercurio_fc]

When it comes to instrument libraries (especially project-based ones that you can get from IDNET) then I fully agree with Dennis that you're probably better off putting those into the instr.lib folder. My comment in the feedback for your idea was related to generally being able to create a palette item that can link to a directory without needing to use shortcuts.