LabVIEW Installers - Redirecting the Installer Source Location under Additional Installers

[ChromaBurst]

Hello there,

I've found this particular problem fustrating and tiresome, I also haven't been able to find a fix for it. I've read these KB articles with interest but they don't discuss how to use downloaded driver images as opposed to CD installers with .id files:

How Can I Include Additional Installers with My LabVIEW Applications' Installer?
https://knowledge.ni.com/KnowledgeArticleDetails?id=kA00Z0000019N8tSAE&l=en-US

Why Do I Get A "Missing Distribution" Error When Trying to Build an Installer from LabVIEW 8.0?
https://forums.ni.com/t5/forums/postpage/board-id/170/message-subject/installer%20additional/submitt...

We'd like to change the Installer Source Location file path under the Additional Installers dialog under our installer build specification. We'd like to point to a file path on the CD/DVD drive or directly to the NI product cache here:

C:\Program Files\National Instruments\Shared\ProductCache

This would appear to be simple until you to commit the new path to the LabVIEW project file. On selecting Current Folder for the file path, LabVIEW prompts with "An error occured trying to locate <<some installer component>> at the following location: <<some old location>>.

Common sense would dictate that you should be able to reset the location of the CD image. Why can't LabVIEW save the new file path to it's XML project file without building the installer?

-Chroma

[ChromaBurst]

FYI - LabVIEW 8.2.1 under Windows XP SP2

[CarlaU]

Hi Chroma,

I have been researching your question and I believe that this is a known issue in LabVIEW 8.2.1, where the installer defaults to the location from which the software was originally installed. There are two workarounds for this issue, which are described in this knowledge-based [link removed; article no longer available] article. You can either leave the default settings and then when you build the project installer, you will be prompted to browse to the new location of the additional installer and you can select it here. The other option is that for each additional installer you might want to include, copy the contents of the corresponding driver CD to a folder on your hard drive, then reinstall the drivers from that folder. This will reset the default location of the installer to the folder on your hard drive, and the installer build process will use that location.

I hope this helps!

[ChromaBurst]

Great thanks! I'd missed this one in the KB. This KB link should be appended to the other link I referenced.

-Chroma

[CarlaU]

Hi Chroma,

I agree with you about adding the link to that other KB. I will go ahead and have that fixed. Have a great day!

Carla