Basics of LabVIEW project management

Hi all,
I'm new to LabVIEW, coming from a C++ background. I'm curious about an .lvproj behaviour -- I'm allowed to have a subVI as an external Dependency, without including it in the project itself.
What's the basis of this design?
If I understand correctly, an .lvproj is intended for managing the files that are part of an application (or set of related applications). My immediate thought, then, is that the sensible thing to do is to have ALL relevant files tracked by the .lvproj -- with the exception of libraries, which are being used by the project (as opposed to being developed within the project).
What are the use cases where a VI should remain a Dependency, and not a Project component?
Thanks in advance!

Having custom written components in the dependency list is not suggested. I recommend to manage them explicitly in the project explorer (following a comparable setup to the folder hierarchy on disk).
That being said, i'll answer your question:
When opening a LV VI, it will automatically load the static VI hierarchie into memory. So all subVIs are usually loaded into memory at this point.
If a VI with the same name (but openend from a different folder location) is already in memory, you will get a conflict which might introduce project crosslinkings.
The project populates the dependency list automatically with all loaded files within the projects context, which are not already covered in an explicit way.
So both approaches (explicit vs. implicit management) work in the development environment, but implicit management (all having in the dependency list) removes certain (important) options for building applications/installers/source distributions.
hope this helps,
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eximo wrote:
How do you force Labview to use relative references instead of absolute references?
LabVIEW already uses relative paths for most VIs. The exceptions are VIs which are saved in logical folders like vi.lib and VIs which are saved on another volume from their caller. If LV is searching for files and having conflicts, the problem is not with that part.
Based on your description I'm guessing that you're not actually creating full copies of your libraries. For example, if you have VI A1 in library A and it calls VI B and then you copy VI A1 somewhere, but you fail to copy VI B as well, then the new copy won't find VI B, because it's not where it's supposed to be. That's the point where LV starts searching for files.
Another problem you might have is exactly that you open VIs which reference mutliple copies and then you get conflicts. For instance, in the previous example, if you open A1 in a project which already has B loaded, then A will now link to that B rather than the original B. If you have multiple such files loaded together, you'll get multiple conflicts.
The main issue people usually have with this sort of thing is that this is meant for reuse code and for that people want to have one canonical copy that you can update and then all the projects get it. It might be possible to do what you want with something like svn:externals, but I don't know the details and I seem to remember people not liking it for something like this.
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