I have three computers, each with a different version of Labview installed. Office PC - Labview 2019, Remote PC - Labview 2020 and a laptop - Labview 2023. I have designed a control system on my office PC which has been copied to the remote PC, which controls a small pilot plant. I can login to this remote PC and make small changes as required. Upgrading all to Labview 2023 is not possible due to license restrictions.
My problem is as follows: The plant requires two driver systems. One from Bronkhorst (67 Files) and one from Lauda (113 files). They are installed on all three PC's in the directory "instr.lib", a sub directory of the Labview version. After designing my project on the 2019 version, I copy the files to the remote PC but it does not find the drivers as they are not in the 2019 subdirectory but in the 2020. I have to point Labview to the right place in order to load the various VI's and then re-save the project.
What would be the best solution?
1. Make a shortcut to the libraries and place it in the relevant directory. The remote PC has a Labview 2019 directory. I would create the instr.lib driectory and put the shortcut here to point to the 2020 instr.lib. I don't know if this would even work.
2. After watching a few tutorials, they said the project tree should mirror the hard disk tree so I could put the drivers directly into my project. This would make my project bigger but would be acceptable.
3. Lump it and just show Labview where the drivers are after each new change, as I do at the moment.
Thanks for any help.
Mark