Running a LabView application from a network drive

[Rich_A.]

Can I install a LabView application on a network drive to allow others to use that application without having to install it on their machine?

[RavensFan]

Yes and No.

You can have the executable you created located on the network drive.  But each user will need to have the LabVIEW runtime enginer (and other run-times such as VISA) installed on their machine to be able to run the executable.

[jcarmody]

Deploy it as a web service...

[Rich_A.]

Thanks for the info, Ravens Fan and jcarmody...I've never done anything as a web service before. Is there anything special I need to know or are there some help files or something else that are pretty straight forward?  

[smercurio_fc]

Web Services in LabVIEW

search is wonderful, isn't it?

[Rich_A.]

Please explain this "search" thing that you speak of...just kidding - thanks for the info.

[Rich_A.]

After reading about web services I'm afraid that is a little outside of my expertise plus I'm using 8.5 and I don't know if I can upgrade before I need to have this program ready. Looks like I'm back to installing the RTE for each user...ugh. 

[Cory_K]

May I ask what you cannot figure out about publishing your VI?

Maybe we can help you out (thats kind of why we're here )

[Ipshita_C]

Please look at the reply gievn by Ravens Fan. LabVIEW, even just Run-Time, is distributed with license and in order to run LabVIEW on a local machine, at least a license for installing the LabVIEW Run-Time is required. So the answer is that you can install it on a network drive but for other users to be able to use it on their local machines they must at least have the license for LabVIEW Run-Time. Hope this helps!

Ipshita C.

[Rich_A.]

Cory K, I guess my first question would be whether or not this could be done with LV 8.5 since what I have read seems to highlight this feature in LV 8.6 and I can't find very much information for previous versions. I tried to view some example code but they were version 8.6.