How to change the TestStand directroy name?

[Rafi2003]

Hi,

I'm interested to change the TestStand directroy name to 'TestStand' instead of 'TestStand 3.0' or 'TestStand 3.1'.

I'm facing a problem with this name. Here is an explanation:

Right now we have TS3.0 and TS3.1 installed on several computers. We work on projects that share modules (like GPIB). These modules are in a ClearCase system, so each one of us can use them and modify them. These modules call to some TS files like 'tsutil.fp' (which is located on the C drive). As a result of different TS names, the project which formerly called a file in TestStand 3.0 directory is now looking for the same file in TestStand 3.1 directory which it doesn't find...

Can you advice me how to modify the TestStand directory name to 'TestStand'?.

Thanks
Rafi

[Scott_Richardson]

Rafi -
In CVI 7.x there is a menu called Instruments>>Search Directories which should allow you to specify where to look for missing instrument drivers. In CVI 6.0 it was under the Options menu. See if this helps...

[Rafi2003]

Thanks Scott,

Investigating further, I found out that it is easy to modify the directory name in which TestStand is being installed.

However, I still have a problem in modifying the CVI directory. The line were you are suppose to change the default is "grayed" so there's nothing you can do about it. Do you know anything about that?

Another question related to TS -
In the Configure/Search Directories I unchecked many items. However, they stay there forever...
Is there a way to delete them?

Thanks
Rafi

[nandini]

In TestStand, if you go to the Configure>>Search Directories menu, you can add user defined paths to search directories. You have the option to add/remove/move up and move down the search directories. However these options are valid only for user defined search directories. The paths to directories that come shipped with TestStand cannot be removed or moved up/down. In your case, I would suggest that you create a custom path to the directory where you want to search and move it right to the top of the list using the "move up" button. In this way that particular directory will be searched first.

Thank you
Nandini Subramaniam
Applications Engineer
National Instruments