Upgrading to v5.0

What's new in Workers v5.0

Workers v5.0 is developed for LabVIEW 2017 and later.

For the full list of changes made in Workers v5.0, please see the Change Log.

Note: Upgrading from Workers v3.x projects

The Workers v5.0 upgrade tool cannot directly upgrade a Workers v3.x project to Workers v5.0. To perform this upgrade, you will need to first upgrade the project to Workers v4.0 using the upgrade tool supplied with Workers v4.0.

The Workers v5.0 upgrade tool will upgrade a Workers v4.0 project to Workers v5.0. The upgrade tool is located in the bottom-left corner of the Workers tools menu. The upgrade tool will iterate through the Workers and VIs in a Workers project and perform the following tasks:

1. Files with the name Common Cases.vi will have their file name changed to MHL Cases.vi. The VI icon text will also be changed. All links to these VIs should be maintained by the upgrade tool.

Common Cases.vi -> MHL Cases.vi

2. Files with the name Setup subWorker.vi will have their file name changed to Setup Statically-Linked subWorkers.vi. All links to these VIs should be maintained by the upgrade tool.

Setup subWorker.vi -> Setup Statically-Linked subWorkers.vi

3. Files with the name subWorkers.ctl will have their file name changed to Statically-Linked subWorkers.ctl. All links to these VIs should be maintained by the upgrade tool.

subWorkers.ctl -> Statically-Linked subWorkers.ctl

4. The 'subWorkers' cluster in a Worker's private data cluster is renamed to 'Statically-Linked subWorkers'.

'subWorkers' -> 'Statically-Linked subWorkers'

5. The background icon of all Workers and all Worker base classes will have their icons replaced.

Class Icons replaced for Workers and Worker base classes

The upgrade tool may take several minutes to upgrade a project depending on the project's size. Once the tool has completed implementing these changes on a selected project, save all the changes made to your project. Your project has now been upgraded to Workers 5.0.