unused shared variables and vi's

[PaulG.]

I'm cleaning up a 9-month old project. I'm the 3rd developer to work on it and it's become a little disorganized. I want to clean up the file structure and project directory before the next developer steps in to support this project. What is the best way to organize an already existing project and file structure to eliminate any unused vi's and shared variables?

[PaulG.]

I've gotten the VI's pretty well organized using the save for distribution function. I have some templates and seperate main functions and just wanted to know if I missed anything. I'm really concerned about unused shared variables. They seem to be taking up an awful amount of space in my project and directories.

[charris · Accepted solution]

Paul:

In your project, you can right-click your variables and select "find callers" to deterimine what (if any) VIs are using your shared variables. That may help to determine which ones are unused.

[PaulG.]

Yes, I knew about that but wanted something a little less cumbersome. This looks like the way I'll have to do it.

[Yamaeda]

To remove unused VI's, you can create a Source distribution which will only copy the referrenced VI's to a target location.

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