Is there an option to "Don't Save Changes" to a VI

[BeginnerMan]

Hi,

Often times I will open VI's and maybe I clicked through tab controls or scroll through the Block Diagram ...

In any case - LabView doesn't allow me to Not Save those changes, which then makes it look like I edited the VI.

Is there a way where I can click to NOT SAVE when I close, rather than to defer to when I have to close the whole project and then hopefully I remember which ones I changed and which ones I just opened for reference?

Michael

[kbbersch · Accepted solution]

Before closing the VI you can select File|Revert then colse the file.

[Fewoizz]

I like this concept for two issues. Sometimes I'm temporarily  editing VIs that I don't want to save.  I have to keep a list of which files I need to revert before saving and closing the project.  Often these files are in memory but the windows aren't open, so it's not as simple as it could be if I could just mark a VI to not save when closed.  The second issue is when I open a VI in a newer version of LabVIEW and I defintely do not want to save most of the VIs in the new version.  I might have to click through a lot of VIs that I don't want to save.  Even worse is when someone opens them in a newer version and saves them without knowing and I have to go back and resave them all in a previous version.  

[GerdW]

The solution to this problem is to use a source code control (SCC) tool, like SVN...

[Fewoizz]

Using TortoiseSVN, but still a lot of work to commit and revert.  I've been frustrated with this for many years and saw someone had a similar suggestion, but they had a workaround and why use a workaround when NI could just fix it.  I'm transitioning to Python anyway, so I don't really care too much.

[Yamaeda]

[Fewoizz]

Thank you for that.