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Web Publishing sub v's

I have Labview 8.2.  Right now I have web published my top level vi and it works fine, aside from the fact that when I click on a button that runs and displays the front panel of a sub vi it does not display the sub vi IE.  I thought about instead of having the top level vi call the sub vi directly it could call the web published page of the sub vi.  But I'm running into a few problems. 
 
-There will be many sub vi's that will display to the client user and I would like to not have a million instances of IE running.  If possible I was wondering if there was a way to hyperlink between web published vi pages using buttons in labview?  And how to load a vi into memory for referencing in the web published page?
 
-Also I would need everything else to be waiting on the output of those sub vi's. 
 
for example:  I cannot display the code, but I have a graphing vi which calls a sub vi (database navigator) to grab information from a database based on the user selections.  The database navigator has a window where the user can select the table and columns of information they want to graph.  So that database navigator returns two columns of information that get plotted in the graphing vi.  I want graphing vi to wait until database navigator returns those columns and closes.
 
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Hi dave2,

One way to open up a subVI's front panel with the web publishing tool will be to set the subVI to open its front panel when called (right click the subVI and go to subVI node setup).  Calling remote front panels via a web browser uses the LabVIEW Runtime Engine, which is able to open the subVI's front panel. However, the subVI's front panel will open as a separate window from the Runtime Engine. This means that it will look like a normal LabVIEW VI front panel and will not be embedded in a browser window. If you want to have the window embedded in the main VI you might consider using the SubPanel control.

I hope this helps!


Regards,

Nadim
Applications Engineering National Instruments
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