creating template vi

[K.Waris]

I have 23 subvis which I have to create for a project. All these subvis will have almost identical front panels- few controls + error clusters for dataflow. I wonder if I could save myself sometime by having a good template stored somewhere. So everytime I want to create a new subvi, I take a copy of the template vi and use it without getting any conflict messages?

Kind Regards

[ben64]

File -> Save As, in save as type select Template VIs

Ben64

[SteveChandler]

Also you can just rename a vi from .vi to .vit using Windows. The extension is the only thing that makes a VI a template.

[Darin.K]

Plus you can simply use .vi files themselves as templates.

[K.Waris]

ok so I have got the vit file in my project explorer and I also have now 23 virtual folders and I want to copy this template vi into those 23 folders all independent of each other. One way I could think of is to open template vi and create unopened additional copy for each folder in the project explorer. Is there a better way?

Kind Regards

[Corny]

Why do you want to do that? 

Isnt the point of a VIT to not do that? 

Take a look at this, if it is helpfull. it creates several running VI's from a template and shows them into a sub-panel. Each template is cloned and has cotten some information to it using the set control value method.

http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW/front-panel-state-of-VI-in-subpanel/m-p/1697738#M601499