Using tasks in the LabVIEW project when building an executable

[M_S_C]

I've built an executable that is set by default to look at tasks that are saved in the project. It looks like an exe can only see tasks in NI Max.

Is it possible to run an executable referencing tasks in the project?

Is it a bad idea to have tasks in the project? I was told that is how things should be done.

Does anybody have any recommendations about 

[Bob_Schor · Accepted solution]

Hello, M_S_C.

     My recommendation is to use the tools that DAQmx provides to create your tasks directly in the Executable.  DAQmx has functions that can build and configure Tasks for you.  The only "trick" is that you need to find the "Physical Device" that you want to use.

     There are ways to do this using DAQmx.  However, in helping another user on this Forum this week, I discovered that the technique I'd been using for about a decade to do this seems to have stopped working sometime in the last six months.  I'm going to try to track this down next week.

Bob Schor