Creating installer with office toolkit 1.1.1 and labview 8

Question

HI All,
I am developing a large application with labview 8 and office toolkit 1.1.1 installed.
We need to make an installer to distribute our application to all of
our contractors (hundreds of them) for direct them in methods of
procedure during construction, conformance reporting, inspection and
test plan reports and finally uploading data gathered during
installation and testing to our network assets database.
I have successfully programmed the code in Labview 8 and have the
report generation functioning satisfactorialy, but when i create the
executable, i get the following message when trying to generate a
report:
Error 7 occurred at Open VI Reference in New Report.vi->PrintWordReport.vi->Compile MOP.vi->COAT_Top Level.vi
Possible reason(s):
LabVIEW:  File not found. The file might have been moved or
deleted, or the file path might be incorrectly formatted for the
operating system. For example, use \ as path separators on Windows, :
on Mac OS, and / on Linux.
NI-488:  Non-existent board.
VI Path: C:\Documents and Settings\John\My Documents\NATIONAL
INSTRUMENTS\COAT\builds\COATAppBuildScript2\My
Application\Application.exe\Word_Open.vi
Built Application or Shared Library (DLL): Make sure all dynamically loaded VIs were properly inc
Fair enough..... i consulted the toolkit manual which said that i need
to include the following llb's in the source file in the builder: "
_exclsub.llb and _wordsub.llb.
When i include these llb's in the top level folder in the project
window and try to build the exe again, i get the following"The file
already exists in the destination.
C:\Program Files\National Instruments\LabVIEW 8.0\vi.lib\addons\_office\_wordsub.llb
BUT my destination directory is in the "my documents" folder, not in the above path!!!
What is going on?????
Problems part II ---
in the toolkit, there are different excel and word llb's for each different version of office.
This application has to distribute to many different computers, each with different versions of office.
How do i include the correct llb's for the correct version of office for every PC?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.......
regards
John

Answer 1

Hello John,
I. How are you adding the support files? Are you adding them when creating the executable in the source files configuration page of the build script, and if so are you marking them as dynamic VIs?
II. That’s a tough one. Since the ActiveX structure changes from one version of office to the next it would be difficult to create one executable that will work on all versions. Currently you need to have the same version on your dev machine as you do your target. Sometimes you can get away with not having the exact same version if you are only doing very generic things and the ActiveX structure hasn’t changed for those things between versions, but that is a little risky. It may be a good idea to build a couple of versions of your VI for the two or three most recent versions of Office
Regards,
Chris J
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