Changing Labview 10 vi to a lower version vi.

[Jess84]

I currently have labview 10 at home and do most of my work using that version. However my employer has labview 8.0 and the Vi's I make don't work on Labview 10. I know there's a way to save files from version 9 to earlier versions but can't seem to find anything on version 10. Does anyone know if I can change a version 10 file into a version 8.0?

[smercurio_fc]

I don't understand what you mean by "can't seem to find anything on version 10" regarding saving to earlier versions. It's in the same place as before. File -> Save for Previous Version. With LabVIEW 2010 you can save all the way back to 8.

[aeastet · Accepted solution]

Like this

[Jess84]

That's weird, I have to double click file to get all save options. I hadn't seen this before, sorry.

[JÞB]

two methods:

1. contact your local NI rep and get the media for LabVIEW 8.0 and install it at home. This would be the prefered method since you directly use the same IDE and don't need to wonder about "is this feature supported in 8.0?" or how much is my BD going to change.  For example if you use the merge errors in 10.0 the downconversion can get "ugly"

2.

[NIquist]

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@Jess84 wrote:

That's weird, I have to double click file to get all save options. I hadn't seen this before, sorry.

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I believe that is a Windows "feature".  It starts hiding program menu options you don't use often after it determines your usage patterns.  Another silly attempt by M$ to save us from ourselves I guess.