How do I Open a VI Reference to a version of a VI Template running in memory?

I'm spawning multiple versions of a VI Template using the VI server. I understand that each time I run a new version of the template it gets it's own space in memory. I then need to get a VI Reference to each indiviual version of the template running in memory so that I can open and close front panels dynamically, fron the calling VI and the template itself. When a version of a VI template is dynamically run LabVIEW renames it, so that the name of the VI running in memory is slightly different from the name of the template that it was based on, so I can't wire a name into the "Open VI Reference" node. I tried using the "Current VI's Path" node inside the template itself and that did not wor
k either.
I hope I explained this well enough. Any help greatly appreciated.

Alternatively, you can open a reference to the LV application and use a property node to get the names of all VIs in memory. Using this, you can generate a reference to the individual VIs too (without having to enter the path). You can wire the name of the VI to the "path" input of the open VI reference VI to open a reference to the VI if it is already in memory.
Shane.
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