The TestStand 1.0 user manual was created when LV 5.0.x was the current version. Newer LV versions have better features for building applications. The explanations for this in the TestStand TS 2.0 user manual has been improved to incorporate the newer LV features and customer feedback. You can get the new manual from www.ni.com/manuals under Current Manula Revisions>>Measurement and Automation Software>>TestStand.
In addition to the TS user manual there are a couple of web documents that describe suggested steps in the build and distribution process. See "Overview of Distributing TestStand when your Sequences use the LabVIEW Standard Prototype Adapter". This does not give details about rebuilding your LV operator interface, but describes the entire distribution and discusses other items within your question.
In general,
- you build the OI with the LV app builder using the build script that is provided in the OI directory. I recommended that you copy the \Operator Interfaces\NI\LV\ directory to \Operator Interfaces\User\LV\ directory before building your LV OI. You then use the LV distribution features to distribute your OI.
-The Assemble Test VIS for Run-time Distribution tool is for searching through sequences an gathering the VIs and their resources (e.g. subVI's) for distribution. The TS 2.0 tool is much better than the 1.0.x tool. You must then choose the means by which you distribute your sequence files and these assembled VIs. This tool has nothing to do with your OI.
-The Run Engine Installation Wizard tool creates an installer for you TS engine, the current settings, your process model(s), etc. It is also unrelated to your OI creation and distribution, although your OI will use the engine and settings distributed by this installer. It is also unrelated to your distribution of sequence files and the code modules they call.
Note:
The first versions of LV and TS to officially work with Windows 2000 (and XP) are LV 5.1.1 and TS 1.0.2. There are issues with previous versions.
