Allow "Find All Instances" on a password-protected VI

[d.w.b]

Right-clicking the icon on the front panel of most VIs displays a pop-up menu with a "Find All Instances" of that subVI on the block diagrams of other VIs. However, if the VI is password-protected the pop-up menu is displayed. The password may not even be known by the developer.

[wiebe@CARYA]

It's not the pw protection status, all locked VIs (incl. pw protected) lack this ability.

And there are ideas to allow Find All Instances on locked VIs:

(sub)VI-Icon: make "Find All Instances" also available when VI is locked (Read-only) - NI Community

and it's duplicate:

Allow "Find All Instances" on a locked VI - NI Community

So, great idea, kudo the first one.

[wiebe@CARYA]

Btw. my workaround is to drop the VI (running or locked) in a new VI and right click the sub VI. In that menu, Find All Instances is available.

[d.w.b]

> It's not the pw protection status, all locked VIs (incl. pw protected) lack this ability.

Thanks for pointing that out.

> And there are ideas to allow Find All Instances on locked VIs:

Saw them but did not realize the correlation.

> (sub)VI-Icon: make "Find All Instances" also available when VI is locked (Read-only) - NI Community

> So, great idea, kudo the first one.

Which says "Status: Completed | Now available in LabVIEW 2023 Q3" so can someone with that version installed verify Find All Instances works on a password-protected file, please?

[Petru_Tarabuta]

I can confirm that this is implemented in 2023 Q3, which is nice to see.