rolling back your 6.1 Files

[shabu]

Hi,
My company just took a major decision and due to which I will have to revert back to Labview 5.1. We have been developing code for last few months and now to have to re-do it in 5.1 will be a tremendous waste of time. Does anyone has ideas on how can we save 6.1 files as 5.1 We havent used any special features of 6.1 in our code. Most of our code was in 5.1 and then we opened it and saved it in 6.1 and now we have to go back. Its really frustrating. We have 6.0 also, so can we make it like a 3 step process. i.e. save from 6.1 as 6.0
and then from 6.0 save it as 5.1??

Thanks

[Jim_Kring]

Yes, that is how you will have to do it.

6.1 >> 6.0 >> 5.1

Good luck, you might need it.

-Jim

[Dennis_Knutson]

Would you like to tell everyone the name of your company so we could all avoid ever working for such a place?

[shabu]

sorry cant do that 😛

[wiebe@CARYA]

Hi,

You can make it a bit easier for yourself.

Make a recursive list of all vi's you want to recompile (including the ones
in llb's). In a for loop, open a reference to all the VI's (including the
ones in llb's), and save them using the save to previous version invoke
node.

When you're done, save the vi that does all this to 6.0, and repeat the step
(but save to 5.0.x in stead of 6.0)...

The time you gain by doing this, will not compare too the time you'll loose
by stepping back to LV5.

Regards,

Wiebe.




"shabu" wrote in message
news:506500000008000000267A0000-1042324653000@exchange.ni.com...
> Hi,
> My company just took a major decision and due to which I will have to
> revert back to Labview 5.1. We have been developing code for last f
ew
> months and now to have to re-do it in 5.1 will be a tremendous waste
> of time. Does anyone has ideas on how can we save 6.1 files as 5.1 We
> havent used any special features of 6.1 in our code. Most of our code
> was in 5.1 and then we opened it and saved it in 6.1 and now we have
> to go back. Its really frustrating. We have 6.0 also, so can we make
> it like a 3 step process. i.e. save from 6.1 as 6.0
> and then from 6.0 save it as 5.1??
>
> Thanks

[Jim_Kring]

Save with Options >> Save for Previous will save all VIs in a hierarchy. This is just as easy. If all of your VIs are not in a common hierarchy, create a "VI Tree" (a VI that has all of the VIs of interest in its diagram) and now you do have a common hierarchy.

-Jim

[Jeremy Braden]

Here is a program written in LV 6.0. It should upgrade to 6.1 with no problems. You may want to contact a NI alliance member for assistance for converting all of your VIs. Goto www.ni.com/alliance .

Unfortunately there is no way to build conversion programs into working executables because the code for converting VIs is not included in the LV run time engine. Conversion requires the development environment.

[Spaz]

I'm not interested in who, but I am curious as to why. Can you comment on the nature of the decision that requires reversion back to 5.1? Perhaps someone has an idea that can help you to avoid that necessity.