Transferring VIs from Mac to Windows, with report generation through Word and Excel

[sfernandez]

I'm working on a VI on a Mac and I want to know if it will be possible to open it on Windows Labview and have it run normally. My VI also creates a report through Word and Excel, will that be an issue or should it transfer smoothly to Windows? 

[Gregory]

Hi sfernandez,

I think in general the code is platform independent between Mac OS and Windows. There are some things that might depend on how you coded it, for instance building a path.

If you are using Report Generation Toolkit VIs to control MS Office, then I don't see a reason why that should break. However, I notice slight changes in behavior just by using different versions of Office, so you may experience some of that too.

The best thing to do is to test early. When I start on a new project I start building the executable pretty early, without any instrument drivers or anything, because it is a pain to find an error later and try to debug why the application is not building.

[aptivo]

The report generation toolkit is using ActiveX as communication to the MS programs. I think this is not available for MacOS. Therefore it can't be used.

In the official documentation: http://www.ni.com/pdf/manuals/375405d.html MacOS is also not stated as compatible.

[Gregory]

Hi aptivo,

Ah, thanks for pointing that out.