Multi-User Environment

[IJnte]

Dear all,

In the past half year i made a couple of medium sized Labview Programs for Lab-Applications. In our Lab, whe have 18 workbenches where the use equipement in combination whith Labview (I'm promoting it).

I would like to know if i can store my labview application on a network drive so that everybody can acces it and use it at the same time. For example:

If i have an simple Vi that can communicate with a Multimeter trough GPIB, can 2 user use it at the same time ? Should i install all my modules on the harddisk of the users, or is Labview capable of handling a multi-user enviroment?

Thank you in advance,

IJnte de Jong

[vicky]

Hi,

the easy way is just create a application or a exe and put it up on the server so that all your 18 guys can use it ,there is no problem in using it this way ,we have been using a lot of test programs across the globe by putting it up on our server and acessing it from many places.

vicky

[IJnte]

So i can put my "Main" Vi on the server (//servername/Labview/Program/Main.vi) and everybody can use this vi (and sub-Vi's) at the same time ? That would be great. Offcoure i must make the file read-only. Or is there a good way to prevent the Vi from being changed?

[vicky]

Hey,

You will have to create a Application or EXE and not the VI.

vicky

[IJnte]

Mmm.. Do i need special software for that such as Labview Run-Time ?

[GerdW]

Hello,

the runtime lib is included with labview or (if not) can be downloaded from www.ni.com.

But you will need the PDS (prof develeopment system) version of labview to create an exe...

[becktho]

And don't forget - although you have the same program, you may have hardware which may be different connected, configured, ... at each workbench.

Thomas

[vicky]

Hi ,

  The labview runtime is free on the net ,all machines which have to run the application need this to be installed,what version of LV do u have i mean do u have the application builder installed.then you can create an application or exe.

If you create a exe automatically LV runtime is also installed by the installer.

vicky

[becktho]

The runtime is not installed just if you create a exe-file. You have to create an installer and there you can include the runtime to be installed.

[IJnte]

On every computer we are running Labview 6.0.2 (within 2 month 7.1). So it doesn't have to work on a computer without labview.