template vis from right click menu

[drmase13]

Hi all,

I've searched and could not find any posts with this situation.  I have made a template vi, and saved it in a subdirectory in Labview's built-in templates folder.  Then, I've added it to a new palette so that I can access this template quickly and base a new vi on it.

My problem is: when I click this template in my new palette, the template gets placed as a subvi in my blank diagram, and the icon has a blue "T" on it.  If I double click this icon it opens the template itself.

What I want:  when I click the template in the palette, I want to place the template's block diagram on a blank diagram that I already have open.

If I double click the vit in Windows Explorer, it opens a new vi with my template in it (which is good, but I don't want to have to click from Windows all the time).

Is there a setting or property that I missed?  I know this is possible, I've seen it done with other custom templates (such as the JKI Toolkit templates).

Thanks,

Don

[Ben · Accepted solution]

Take a look at this nugget by Yair.

 

They used to be called Merge VI's so I found it using a different search.

Ben

[drmase13]

Ah, thanks, Ben.  That was it.

In LabView 8.6 it's named as "Place VI contents" which is self-explanatory but I did not think to look in the right click menu while customizing my palette.

 

Message Edited by drmase13 on 10-05-2009 01:47 PM

[jeff.kittle]

The new method of doing about the same thing is called snippets:

http://labviewwiki.org/Snippet

Worth looking at if you found yourself here in a search on vi templates.