Palette item for vi.lib

[Spectre_Dave]

I would like an Advanced Palette item to take me to the vi.lib.  Currently I use Select a VI and have to navigate to:

C:\Program Files\National Instruments\LabVIEW 8.5\vi.lib to browse for and find VIs that I need.

[smercurio_fc]

What VIs are you looking for that wouldn't be on the standard palette? You know that you can customize the palette, right?

[Spectre_Dave]

I don't use it all the time but occasionally I go looking for functionality that is not in the normal Palette. i.e. vi.lib/utilities

[smercurio_fc]

Then simply edit the palette set to add whatever items you want. Perhaps in the "Favorites" category. I don't really agree that there should be a special palette item just to go to that directory.

[AristosQueue (NI)]

Historically, NI has discouraged the use of VIs that ship with LV that are not in the palette unless you create your own copy of them. This is because there is no guarantee that those VIs will exist in the next version of LabVIEW. In LV2009, we were burned by a lack of enforcement of this policy when the Config file VIs were refactored. The "public" (aka "in the palette") functionality was maintained, but a deep subVI was eliminated, a subVI that turned out to be used by multiple customers.

At this point the last thing we would want to do is encourage the use of VIs not in the palettes. We may, in the future, change many of the VIs not in the palettes so they are owned by .lvlib files and marked as "private" specifically to  discourage their use. You'd still be able to copy the VIs and make those copies public, but that would make it so that no one links directly against the VIs in vi.lib. If that is done, you won't be navigating to the vi.lib directory all the time because you'd have your own copies somewhere on your disk. 

[shb]

This idea is very similar: Select VI Select Starting Path

[Darren]

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