Deployment utility must warn and or ignore LabVIEW's separate compiled code flag.

[NickNZ]

The separate compiled code flag is great when using VIs and source code control.

However TestStand (2016 SP1) deployment utility builder does not warn if the separate complied code flag is set - This means the VI will not run with the TestStand Deployment Licence without a LabVIEW development system installed. 

I do think the the Deployment utility should have a checkbox to force include the compiled code in all VIs and Controls so it can be run easily with the TestStand Deployment licence and LabVIEW runtime engine. 

Suggested because I have pulling my hair out wondering why a VI on a deployment machine won't run. 

Turns out a type def control had separate compile code flag set!  I even wrote code to clear this flag on VIs and all subVIs - it never occurred to me to check controls!

Also please update the error message in TestStand:

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Details:

Parameter 'UUTServiceType': -This was a bit of a clue... but the TestStand type matched when I recreated it.
Unable to load VI 'Dialog - Prompt to connect UUT.vi' with the LabVIEW Run-Time Engine version 17.0.
The version of a subVI might not match the version of the run-time engine and the Version Independent Runtime feature is disabled or a VI dependency might be missing.
Try the following steps to troubleshoot the issue:

1. Open the VI in the LabVIEW development system. If the VI is broken, fix any errors in the VI.
2. Force compile the VI by clicking the run arrow while holding the 'Ctrl' key.
3. In LabVIEW, select File >> Save All to ensure that all subVIs are saved in the same LabVIEW version.

4. Check that the separate compiled code flag is not set on the VI or its dependent subVIs and controls (typedefs) when using the LabVIEW Runtime engine. 
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Error Code:

-17600; Failed to load a required step's associated module.
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Location:

Step 'Prompt User to Connect UUT' of sequence 'MainSequence' in 'My testsystem.seq'
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{edit1} I also have just realised that running the code with the LabVIEW runtime in adaptor settings worked fine on my development PC as the control's code was in my local object cache. So I was also wondering why it worked fine on my development machine and not on the deployment machine when using the LabVIEW runtime.

Therefore the Runtime adapter should have a setting  to either Disable the Runtime using the local object cache

or an option ot clear the local object cache before running the sequence. This means this issue would have been reproducable on my development machine with the LabVIEW runtime adapter. 

I feel this idea is almost is close to being a bug.... 

[WireWeaver]

Deployment Utility does check for this flag, so if you can provide a case where it doesn't include the compiled code in the deployment image, it would indeed be a bug and not a feature request.

Trent

National Instruments