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Option to migrate VIs installed in a previous version LabVIEW folder to new LabVIEW installation

Status: New

This is in addition to New LabVIEW Installation Retains Options

 

During LabVIEW installation if it detects a previous version of LabVIEW has been installed it should present the user with the option (or have a flag when running the installation to allow this to be done silently) to import all VIs which are not installed by default that are present in the following folders:

  • vi.lib (VI Package Manager installs packages to this location by default)
  • instr.lib
  • user.lib

Upon importing the VIs to the new LabVIEW installation it should also mass compile them to the new LabVIEW version so the user is not faced with having to save loads of VI dependencies each time the user opens a VI which uses them.

 

This would make the getting started with the new version of LabVIEW a lot more seamless when just upgrading from a previous version.