Reading Process Variables from Epics on LabVIEW 8.5 or 8.6

[Pawel_Kowalski]

Hello, I have a sample epics IOC running on our subnet. I would like to read values from this IOC and possibly write values to it using LabVIEW 8.5 or 8.6 (doesn't matter, I have both). I found an active x library but this does not seem to work with my new version, the read me says it was designed for labview 6 and hasn't been updated since 2000. Any help would be appreciated.

[Pawel_Kowalski]

After poking around a bit more I did find the following:

http://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/tut/p/id/7987

This seems to work fine and I was able to set up and epics IO server in my project. However, I can not figure out how to add this to my vi. I am assuming that this created a shared variable (attached is a screenshot) but when I try to add this to my project it won't let me. How can I call "Epics Client1" in my VI? Thanks.

[Will_S.]

You will need to add the library holding the variable to your project, and then drag the variable from the project into your VI. You can do this by opening both projects, hold CTRL and drag the epics_test.vilib from the example project to My Computer in your project. This should create a copy of the library and add it to your project.