Converting Labview Test Executive 5.1 to work with LV7.1.1

[hspec]

Hi,

I have a test that I wrote many years ago using Labview 5.1 and the Labview test executive 5.1 that I would like to modify. I would very much like to move this code to my current version of Labview which is 7.1.1.  When I try to mass compile the Test Exec llb's, I get many errors indicating that some of the vi's have no block diagram, so they cannot be upgraded. Has anyone found a way to do this? 

Thanks in advance,

Howard Spec

CMC Electronics

Canada

[Ray.R]

Have you tried extracting the library as they were in LV5.1 and placing them into a folder.  The open LV7.1.1 and go to that folder, and select it when doing a Mass Compile from LV7.1.1?

R

[Dennis_Knutson]

Are you trying to convert the Test Exec itself? It has been a long time since I've used that but I'm not sure if that is possible. I think the test exec itself was a product that you needed to get upgrades to. If the VIs without block diagrams are part of the test exec, I don't know what you can do since the test exec has been obsolete for quite a while and may never have gotten an upgrade to 7.1.

[Ray.R]

I was about to say...

The Test Executive was TestStand's predecessor, was it not?  Written in CVI...  The last version I'm aware of is 2.1, not 5.1..

Unless you're talking about a home-made Test Executive written in LV5.1?

Or... was there a Labview version of the TestExecutive?

R

[Dennis_Knutson]

There was both a CVI and LabVIEW version. I don't remember the versions of either but the latest may have been developed with LabVUEW 5 or possibly 6. Both were made obsolete when TestStand was introduced ~10 years ago. TestStand has a sequence file converter for either and I would recomend an upgrade to TestStand. That's a better test executive in each and every way.

[Ray.R]

I worked for a client who used T.E.2.1.

I never heard of the LV version before..  In either case, you need the source code to "upgrade" it..   Best solution is to go with the latest TestStand.

R

[Jennifer_R]

Hi Howard,

Test Executive 5.1 is compatible with LabVIEW 7.1.1.  (You can find more compatibility information here.)  However, as JoeLabView said, you can't convert VIs without block diagrams. 

If you are interested, you can learn more about NI TestStand through this link. 

[hspec]

Jennifer,

Are you saying I can use the Ver 5.1 Test Executive exe I created with Labview version 5.1 with test related vi's created with Labview 7.1.1? 

If not, as I mentioned earlier, there are vi's which are part of the test executive (5.1) that have no block diagrams. For example, when I try to mass compile the test exec llb's I get many errors (due to no block diagram). Here are a few of the vi's which cause the errors:

Load Sequence Editor.vi from Engine.llb

Build Sequence Display.vi from Engine.llb

VI GLOBAL - Sequence Display.vi from Engine.llb

Therefore it does not seem possible to mass compile the 5.1 Test Executive and rebuild it in any other version, so I whould have to conclude that it is not compatible with anything other than Labview 5.1

Howard

[Dennis_Knutson]

If you created an exe to run sequences, then the process of building the exe will remove the block diagram. You would have to look at the original install of the test exec to see whether the block diagrams exist there.

[hspec]

Dennis,

I still have the Test Exec disk and recently installed it on my PC. I then tried to mass compile and found that some of the vi's were shipped by NI with no block diagram.

Howard