How do I save a library to an old 6.0 version?

[blahey]

My customer has a system in the field using LabVIEW version 6.0. I have version 6.1 installed and needed to make a change for my customer in one of our libraries. How do I save an entire library to the older 6.0 version?

[RayFarmer]

Hi,

under the File menu items select Save with options. In the Save with Options dialog box is a radio button option 'Save Previous', select this. The displayed LabVIEW Vision should be 6.0. Press the Save button and follow the instructions.

Regards
Ray Farmer

[blahey]

In doing this, I am only saving the vi that changed in the library. Thus, Labview creates a new library with only the current vi stored in version 6.0 format. I need to update the remaining vis in the library so that they revert back to version 6.0 as well. This way, I will be able to send my customer the new library (saved in the old version).

[RayFarmer]

Hi,

yeah, that is a draw back with this saving back to an older version.

If you have a vi that contains all the top level vi's to your libraries then add this to your main VI, it doesn't have to run. Then save it out to version 6.0.

Regards
Ray Farmer

[blahey]

Thanks Ray, I'll give that a try.
I hope that NI will make this a little more straight-forward in the future.

Best Regards,
Brent Lahey

[ALSPI]

I did this and I had a warnings file come up. I selected OK and my Vi does not work. Problems with the serial port.

[RayFarmer]

Hi,


This looks like a file rights problem to the VI.lib folder.
Have you tried saving you VI's only selecting the Development Distribution or Application Distribution and seeing if you get the same problem?

Regards
Ray Farmer

[ALSPI]

In doing this can I save as 6.0?

[RayFarmer]

No,only by using the 'Save Previous' options will you beable to save as 6.0.


I was trying to identify why the VI's in the VI.LIB weren't being saved out.

Ray Farmer

[Dennis_Knutson]

The warnings about saving certain VIs in vi.llb is normal. Some of the 6.1 functions changed and you can't save them back into a 6.0 llb because of the changes. You should still be able to open your main VI in 6.0 and it will use the equivalent 6.0 functions. Some of the behavior was a little different in 6.0 though. I'm assuming that you don't have a "broken arrow" because you just say you have problems with the serial port. What problem do you have. Is there an error code generated?