TestStand Deployment Tool -17100 Error

[Captain_Jack]

In TestStand v3.5, the TestStand Deployment tool is erroring with a -17100 error when we try to include files for a Talon Instruments SR192A that also use the ".seq" extension for some of it's data files. The Deployment tool appears to assume that these are sequence files and attempts to read paths and determine dependent files, and generates the -17100 error. Is there a way to tell the Deployment tool that these are not Sequence files and should be treated as any other file type? If not, what would be the recommended workaround to get around this issue?

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

If there's no setting/method to getting around this issue in the Deployment tool, I'll add a Product Feature suggestion that the Deployment tool verify that a .seq file is a TestStand sequence before attempting to read paths and dependent files.

Thanks,

-Jack

[Lars_L]

Hey Jack,
Unfortunately there is no direct way to tell the Deployment Tool not to check the dependencies of individual files. One possible workaround, though, would be to change the file extensions of those files before deployment and then programatically change all files with this extension back to the .seq extension. It would depend on how many of these files you have and how many computers you are deploying to (to make it worth it) but you could just create an .exe that does this and run this before running the install .exe.

I would, though, put in a Product Feature suggestion for this as adding this feature to our installer would only make it more robust and would prevent similar issues in the future.

Hope this helps!

Lars

[Lars_L]

Hey Jack,
I just wanted to let you know that I reported this to R&D (CAR ID#: 121670) for further investigation. Thanks for the feedback!

Regards,
Lars