Build name conflicts (NI Report Generation Toolkit)

[Joe_H]

This would be a good thing to do as long as you do not need any of the features/dixes in 8.6

[billings11]

There are features in 8.6?

[Joe_H]

What new features are you referring too. We had to go to 8.6 because of ActiveX . Maybe you should just go with the workarounds. they are not really that bad.

[pfhenry21]

well, today I tried with Labview 2009 and the new report generation, And Magic ! no error message but still all the files link to the report generation in the executable directory...

Seems no solution has been developped for that problem, problem which is still for me too big to use Labview 2009 so I stay with 8.5.1 !

I developping software in labview, not making install kit correcting the report generation problem

Can someone from NI reply this message and tell US what's going on about the report generation and if any solution has been found ?

[tst]

In LabVIEW 2009, there is a solution to this problem - the files are placed inside the EXE in a folder hierarchy.

However, because this can affect the way your code behaves (e.g. if you were basing the location of files on that behavior of LabVIEW), projects that come from 8.6 or earlier have a compatibility option enabled by default to build them using the old method. There should be a checkbox in the application builder (called something like "build using 8.x method") which you can uncheck and then the files will all be inside the EXE.

[pfhenry21]

Thx for the information, I will try tonite

[battler.]

Actually the default setting has the "Build as LV 8.X" checked.  This includes a set of folders containing a large set of (in my case report generation VIs) in the Build destination.

Unchecking removes the additional VI folders in the app build.

This is unusual because in 8.X this never happened.

Any insight?

[battler.]

"Use LV 8.X file layout" under the Advanced tab in the application builder...

[tst]

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battler. wrote:

Any insight?

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Did you try reading the thread? It explains why that option is checked and tells when you would also have seen the same thing in 8.x (the answer is with the RGT that shipped with 8.6).

[Joe_H]

I was one of the few people that got this fix pre-2009 and have been building apps correctly since. I have just been letting the report toolkik build inside the Exe. I have also done it in the 2009 beta and in the 2009 release and it works perfectly. I have even tried it with the tgestStand dedployment utility and it works just fine there too.

Try "Unchecking" the box that says build as LV 8.X