I'm very new to LabView. I'm an engineer at a factory which has multiple places where LabVIEW is used on test machines however we have no one who specializes in LabVIEW and no one even has the software or knows anything about it. I've spent the last few days going through a lot of the training online and I think I have a decent low level understanding now. I'm not currently trying to write programs or anything myself. I'd like to be able to troubleshoot and possibly make a few small changes to be able to solve some of the problems we're having.
Before asking for a license I wanted to make sure 1. I knew I could utilize it to help and 2. I knew what I needed to ask for. I have one machine that uses a LabVIEW 2015 file and another that uses a LabVIEW 2016 file. I'm working on the LabVIEW 2016 one. The PC just has LabVIEW run-time and an .exe file but I have the most recent backup with the libraries.
I downloaded LabVIEW 2020 on my personal PC as I can't install anything on my work PC and tried to open the project. I figured out that I needed to add the given libraries to the /LabVIEW 2020/user.lib/ folder. I can get the project to open but it's a struggle. It seems it's trying to load a lot of .vi's and other things from the library but some of them it can't find at all. They don't seem to exist in the folder they gave me or the stock LabVIEW 2020 folder. I think maybe they are part of the stock LabVIEW 2016 program? It loads over 1000 items. Also I get a "Resolve Load Conflict" screen where I have two files one from the 2020 folder and that I copied in and I have to load the one I copied in. This happens probably 50+ times when trying to open the project.
When I finally do get it to open some of the items say something like (corrupt, missing, deleted, etc) next to them. I can try to load them again but I get a lot of missing items again. Finally I got the majority of the project to load and could start looking through the diagrams. The project is much larger than I anticipated and a lot harder to follow because it uses a lot of things I haven't learned yet. Specifically I'm looking for a PID controller that controls the pressure of the system during test but I can't even find where it's at. I can find the step in the process where it should be stabilizing the pressure but it just looks as though it's reading and writing info and I can't find where anything is being controlled.
First, I just want to get the project loaded correctly. So my questions are:
1. Is LabVIEW 2020 backwards compatible with this 2016 project?
2. Is there a reason why I'm unable to find some of the items I'm supposed to be loading? A browse button pops up and the location of what it's looking for is shown but the item doesn't exist.
3. Is there an easier way to get through these "Resolve Load Conflicts"? I have to select the one from the backup and then hit load each time.