Send email every 5 min if error persists

[tgunther]

I am using LabVIEW 8.2 with the internet toolkit. I am using the email subVI and I have no issue getting the email to send. The way that the program is setup is that if an error occurs, it sends an email with that error. However, as long as the error exists it will continueously send the email. I tried placing a delay in the email subVI which works so that it only sends the email every five minutes, unfortunately this delays the rest of my program as well. How would I make it so that only the email waits five minutes before sending another one, but the rest of the program continues to run?

[Wiebe@CARYA]

Easiest way is to make a vi that you start dynamically. See "dynamic" and
"VI Server" for examples.

You'd start a vi with VI server, and communicate with it through a queue or
buffer.

Hope that helps.

Wiebe.