{"id":272,"date":"2017-11-07T14:49:29","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T14:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fpganow.com\/?p=272"},"modified":"2017-11-07T14:49:29","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T14:49:29","slug":"issues-with-labview-and-lack-of-relative-directory-references","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fpganow.com\/index.php\/2017\/11\/07\/issues-with-labview-and-lack-of-relative-directory-references\/","title":{"rendered":"Issues with LabVIEW and Lack of Relative Directory References"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I wanted to mention that I have all of my LabVIEW (and Vivado) code saved on a RAID-1 mirrored location on my network.\u00a0 From each of my workstations, I map the same network location to my Z drive.\u00a0 This way any and all issues of LabVIEW referring to absolute paths goes away.\u00a0 I do not develop in &#8220;offline&#8221; mode, I am always connected to one of my machines, whether it is by sitting directly in front of the machine or via a Remote Desktop Connection.\u00a0 If you use a laptop, you could always split a piece off of your normal root partition and make a Z drive for yourself.<\/p>\n<p>To do this yourself, create a network share and open it from Windows Explorer, and then select &#8220;Map Network Drive&#8221;.\u00a0 This option will either be an icon or a menu option, and this all depends on the version of Windows that you are using.<\/p>\n<p>So in my case, I have:<\/p>\n<p>\\\\192.168.0.x\\RAID-1 mapped to Z:\\<\/p>\n<p>So I work from:<\/p>\n<p>Z:\\work\\git\\LabVIEW_Fpga<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I wanted to mention that I have all of my LabVIEW (and Vivado) code saved on a RAID-1 mirrored location on my network.\u00a0 From each of my workstations, I map the same network location to my Z drive.\u00a0 This way any and all issues of LabVIEW referring to absolute paths goes away.\u00a0 I do &#8230; <a title=\"Issues with LabVIEW and Lack of Relative Directory References\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/fpganow.com\/index.php\/2017\/11\/07\/issues-with-labview-and-lack-of-relative-directory-references\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Issues with LabVIEW and Lack of Relative Directory References\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fpganow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fpganow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fpganow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fpganow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fpganow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fpganow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273,"href":"https:\/\/fpganow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions\/273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fpganow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fpganow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fpganow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}