When searching through VIs in vi.lib, how do I avoid the "enter password" box?

[bmihura]

When using LabVIEW to search for text or LabVIEW objects, and if you have the "VIs in vi.lib" box checked, this "Authenication" dialog box pops up a couple of times asking you to "Enter Password To Access Block Diagram."

This happens for Error Code Database.vi and Get Text Rect.vi.

How can I avoid this dialog box?

[Joe_H]

Unfortunately i do not believe there is anyway to acoid this as these VI's are password protected from NI and the only way to unlock them is to have the password.

[bmihura]

Maybe some nice NI developer will read this thread and give me the password to my own VIs?

I promise not to break them. 🙂

[Ankita]

Hi Bmihura,

I am not sure if I am understanding your last post correctly. Is LabVIEW prompting you for a password for a VI that you wrote (but did not password-protect)? Can u post a VI that would demonstrate the behavior?

Ankita

[bmihura]

Any VI will work, as long as "General Error Handler.vi" is in memory.

Follow these steps:

1. Open LabVIEW 7.1.

2. In a new VI, put "General Error Handler.vi" on the block diagram. It's in the Time & Dialog palette or here: C:\Program Files\National Instruments\LabVIEW 7.1\vi.lib\Utility\error.llb\General Error Handler.vi

3. Open LabVIEW's search box with -F.

4. Set the "Search Scope" to "All VIs in Memory".

5. Check the VIs in vi.lib box.

6. Search for anything, and you should that "enter password" dialog box pop up. It's asking me for a password.

[bmihura]

I meant to say -F in step 3. The HTML monster got me!

[bmihura]

Grr this forum won't allow HTML for angle bracktets, so I'll just say Ctrl-F.

[tst]

Very simple - The code of those VIs is protected. When you search for an element in all of your subVIs, the search function tries to look through ALL of them, including the password protected ones. Since it wants to look at the diagram, but the diagram is protected, it asks for a password. That's it. Nothing you can do about it, but avoid searching the VI.lib files. There is usually no reason to.

[bmihura]

Yes they're protected, which is why I was hoping for the password. Sometimes I need to search through vi.lib.

Does anybody know the password so I can unprotect them?

[tst]

You won't get the password here. They're password protected because NI wants them to be password protected. That means they won't give you the password. I think your only hope is some disgruntled NI ex-employee. Just cancel the messages every time.