Deployment and modelsupport.seq

Question

I use a customized process model in my design.  I'm building the deployment, and I tell the deployment to get the process model and put it into a certain \user folder.  This model, like the default sequential model, references ModelSupport.seq, ModelSupport2.dll, reportgen_xml.seq.  I did not modify these files at all.  Do I have to somehow point to these files in the deployment.  All of those files are already installed on the target machine.

Answer 1

Hello Mr. Bean,
By default, NI's process models store code module path as a relative path.  So, the path to the ModelSupport2.dll is stored as ModelSupport2.dll instead of C:\Program Files\National Instruments\TestStand 4.0\Components\NI\Models\TestStandModels\ModelSupport2.dll.  TestStand finds this file by appending the relative path name to all of the search directories until it finds a file.  If your target computer has the default search directory of C:\Program Files\National Instruments\TestStand 4.0\Components\NI\ enabled to search through all sub-directories (which it should), then your custom process model should not have a problem locating ModelSupport2.dll and all of the other model support components.
You can also deploy your search directories by including <TestStand>\cfg\TestExec.ini in your workspace (and then in your deployment), as your search directories are stored in TestExec.ini.
Also, "TestStand 4.0" can be replaced with "TestStand <version>" for the above paths.  I hope this helps!
Best Regards,
Software Engineer
Jett R