Automatically skip password protected vi.lib VIs when searching

[tst]

When you do a search for something in the hierarchy and you have a password protected VI, you get this dialog:

 

Often (for example in this case) we don't have the password for the VI and never will because it was developed by someone else. So why not allow us not to see this in the first place?

• First idea - Don't display this at all for VIs in vi.lib. Just skip them.
  Presumably before LabVIEW ships the VIs aren't locked anyway, so the LabVIEW developers shouldn't have a problem, and if they do, let them do a programmatic unlock. The users shouldn't be the ones to suffer.
• Second idea - Generalize it a bit more. Allow us to have a configurable list of folders where the search won't bother to try and unlock VIs (so that if we have locked code from other vendors, we can discard it as well). The default folder for the list should be vi.lib.

[Raeff]

We have one pw-protected VI in our project and I need to do many searchs...

Each time I need to click on Skip. I really gets annoying when it's the 100th time you're doing this.

It seems to me tha this feature would not be a lot of effort to build into LV, but then I'm not NI R&D...

Still cross my fingers that it will be included in the next couple of years.

Kudos please...

[MGiacomet]

Seven years and counting... Hello, NI? Small things like these are what increase productivity not some fancy new "feature"

[tst]

I actually haven't seen this dialog in a long time, probably because at some point NI added this checkbox, which LV seems to remember:

That basically seems to implement the first version of the idea.

[MGiacomet]

Well, "thanks", tst... So NI implemented something that partially hides the issue? The problem persists.

[AdarshaPakala]

I think this is a very useful and time saving. 

[Eric_MyNi]

This is still a very real problem.

An example of a subvi that is not avoided by clicking 'Ignore VIs in vi.lib' is 

C:\Program Files (x86)\National Instruments\LabVIEW 2019\resource\dialog\lvconfig.llb\LV Config Read Boolean.vi

[d.w.b]

Consider kudoing a related idea to be able to "Find All Instances" of the password-protected file as a workaround. If many searches are anticipated, it would be helpful to close the password-protected VI so they will exclude it and not prompt. However, closing the window leaves it in memory if it is a sub-VI. Depending on what is being search for, the developer may be willing to close its callers as a workaround.

https://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW-Idea-Exchange/Allow-quot-Find-All-Instances-quot-on-a-password-prot...