LV 2011 Report Generation Toolkit Constantly asks for 8.6.1 CD

[ngarneski]

I am having a strange issue.

Its a bit intermittant, so I will try my best to explain when it occurs. 

-If I make a new project and run something from the report generation toolkit, I will get an installer from labview 8.6.1. I am running Labview 2011 and have never had 8.6.1 installed on this computer. It will spend about 3 minutes installing something, then demand a labview 8.6.1 CD. 

-If I hit cancel it goes away for the project, until I restart the computer. It does not actually need the CD, it just asks for it. The VI containing the report subvi will execute fine, but if I open any of the front panels I get the installer message again. 

-If I have run something that uses the report generation toolkit previously in this login session I do not encounter the bug.

-Restarting labview does not make it appear, only restarting the computer

[tst]

I had something not dissimilar years ago. I had a computer which LV 7.1 installed on it and when I would browse into a particular web site in Internet Explorer a similar dialog would pop up asking for the RTE install. Putting the CD in wouldn't help, as after a restart it would happen again. I don't remember what I did in the end to stop it (or if I even did anything), but this might indicate that the problem doesn't have to do specifically with the RGT, but with a component it's calling. One thing you can try is to explicitly download and install the 8.6.1 RTE.

[ngarneski]

My woes with the report generation toolkit seem to have worsened. My program runs fine in the dev enviroment, but when I use the builder, and then run the executable, it claims it is missing some LV class files. Its odd, I have never had problems like these with the report generation toolkit until I started working on this program. Could something be corrupted in the project references or something? 

[mikeporter]

It may be time to do a repair on your LV installation - or maybe a complete reinstall. Out of curriosity, did you ever have 8.6.1 installed on that computer?

Mike...

[crossrulz · Accepted solution]

There are classes in the RGT that are loaded dynamically.  You need to include the VIs in your build.

We found you should add the following two folders to your project and then force them to be in your EXE build.

<LabVIEW>\vi.lib\Utility\LVClass

<LabVIEW>\vi.lib\Utility\NIReport.llb

[ngarneski]

That worked!

Its odd though, I have built many different projects into applications that use the report generation toolkit, and this is the first time I have needed to do that.