How to save Various subVIs in 1library?

[roboticstudent]

Hello,

I have tried saving various vis, that sometimes are not  hierarchly connected, into one library.

I have looked at previous posts and it says Save with Options> Development Distribution> (and from there I usually just save.)

My options:

Save to current location: no prompts

To new location: single prompt

To new location: single prompt: preserve hierarchly

To new location: prompt each

Thanks for any suggestions.

[Dennis_Knutson]

Imho, this is not a good idea. If you were to search the forum for "llb corrupt" or something similar, you would see the dangers of saving development work into a library (.llb). If you are working on a single VI and it somehow becomes corrupt (pc lockup, loss of power, or whatever), you will see that the entire llb file can become unreadable. If you keep VIs in folder, you may still end up with a corrupt VI but it's much easier to to restore/rewrite a single file instead of a whole project. You can package them all togeter and send them someplace but once it's distributed, the llb should be converted back to a folder of VIs for development.

[Khalid]

You could manually save them to a LLB using the VI Library Manager from the Tools menu.

-Khalid

PS:  And I agree with Dennis.  One other disadvantage of using LLBs is that it's harder to work with a Source Code Control program -- individual VIs cannot be checked-out, for instance.

Message Edited by Khalid on 03-23-2006 02:00 PM

[roboticstudent]

Thanks for all your advise.