Make VI Tags an officially-supported feature

[flarn2006]

LabVIEW contains a mechanism for storing custom metadata of any type inside of VI files as "tags" (e.g. the path of an Express Source VI's associated config dialog VI) but the methods for manipulating them are marked as private. I think this could be a useful thing to have as an officially-supported feature.

[wiebe@CARYA]

You can use C:\Program Files\National Instruments\LabVIEW nnnn\vi.lib\UserTags\UserTags.lvlib to avoid scripting properties. Of course, this doesn't make it less 'private' per se.

What use cases do you see? I've used tags in the past, but usually refactor not because the methods are private, but because any method using tags is completely invisible. This makes it quite hard to pick up code using tags.

[AristosQueue (NI)]

I support this idea. I'll add my personal kudos.