Projects and Project Libraries

I've been happily using Projects since they were introduced in LabVIEW 8-something.
I've got a Project whose task involves examining directory trees containing other VIs. In some cases, the VIs my code examines have the same name as one of the VIs being used in the code (I'm running in Development Mode, not from an executable). To avoid "name clashes", I did a search on NameSpaces and learned about Project Libraries.
So I've successfully ported all of the files in my Project into a similarly-named Project Library. The code works just fine.
Today, I opened my Project to look at one of my VIs, and to my horror, the Project had none of the files showing. It also didn't show the Project Library (where I "knew" all the files were located). A tad worried, I looked on my disk, and found the Project Library (.lvlib) file -- if I double-click it, there are my files!
What I'm having trouble doing (maybe because it is impossible!) is getting a view "inside" my Project Library from the Project Explorer. Given the close relationship between Projects and Project Libraries (the second is created from the first, for example), I would have expected to see such a link. Does it exist? Or are you expected to open both a Project (which, in my case, has files that are not in the Project Library) and the corresponding Project Library?
Note I did a search through the NI Documentation on Project Libraries, and what I read emphasized the close relationship between a Project and an associated Project Library, including giving them the same (or similar) name and keeping the files in the same folders. [Hmm -- I just realized I did not name my Project and Library identically -- I called the Project "Project XYZ", and the Project Library "Library XYZ" ...].
Experience "from the field" would be most welcome!
Bob Schor
Solved!
Go to Solution.

HandyAndy wrote:
Would you mind posting your project so someone could take a look at it?
Dear Handy,
     Humble Pie time (again!). When I saw your request, I said (to myself, silently) "Just how dumb do they think I am?". So this morning, I brought back an earlier pre-Library version of my Project, captures some screen shots of "Before", and started to (re-)create my Library. I couldn't remember exactly how I did it before, so I followed the steps in the LabVIEW 2011 Manual. I did a "New, Library" from My Computer in the Project, and dragged stuff into it. This time, I noticed there was a lot of "saving VIs" that I didn't recall from my earlier (first) Project Library. When I was done, there, in Project, right where I was expecting to see it (but wasn't!) was my Project Library!
     So what did I "do wrong" before that caused the Library to "disappear" from the Project? Who knows, but I clearly did something (mysterious) incorrectly -- I'll try not to do whatever-it-was again!
     Onward and upward (or maybe onward and downward, since Austin, home of NI Week, is south from here ...).
Bob Schor

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http://www.fcpxbook.com/updates/101/
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I can show you an example of a standard workflow.
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Now you start with the behind the scenes and at one point you want add Footage from the other events to your behind the scenes event.
Choose the clips you want to use and drag them (holding alt) to your event. You may have created a keywordcollection named footage for behind the scenes e.g. while keywording for the other two videos. This keywordcollection will be imported to the third event.
The clips will not be duplicated on your harddrive since they are in the same library. Events are selections from the library just the same as keywordcollections are selections from an event and a project (the timeline) has selections from keywordcollections.
Its up to you and your “job” how fine you want to organize your material. I would always suggest to create a library for every new job coming in.
Or at least for every new client. For bigger projects you want to create events for each day or even libraries for each day.
There is much, much more to say about libraries e.g. that you can leave your files where there are, letting the library refer to them.
Its a great concept and you are able to manage your material in FCPX like in no other NLE.
Watch tutorials on youtube or buy some from licensed trainers like ripple training for constant quality.
Good luck

Zombie libraries and projects

I encountered a strange situation while using referenced masters, on a NAS (if that matters).
My Aperture libraries are on my MBP, while referenced masters are on a NAS. Library A consists of some projects that are mapping to folders on the NAS, and Library B refers to some others.
One day, suddenly all projects in Library B lost connections to their masters (170+ projects and 28,000+ photos all with the red badges, Aperture showed the NAS volume as Offline), and I could not reconnect them (the NAS volume was not shown in the lower part of the reconnect page for selection). I tried several times to revive the zombi library and its projects. For just one time it worked and all photos were back to life, but became zombies again the next time. At times it seemed they were back with the normal badges, but actually not because I could not adjust or relocate any of the photos. I rebuilt the library several times but that did not help. I could import new projects from the same NAS again into the library and they worked well, but the zombies were just dead forever. For the working projects, Aperture showed the volume as Online, but for the zombie projects, it showed the same volume as Offline. I tried export and import the zombie projects, but they were still zombies no matter where they go. At the same time, Finder was happy to see the volume and all its files without any problem.
I gave up and created a new library C, spending days to import all 170+ projects again from the NAS as referenced masters. I got a functioning library and could happily work on it for several days, until one day suddenly all projects and versions became zombies again. Library C became Library B.
On the contrary, I have a good lasting Library A (700+ projects and 150,000+ photos) that works. It was created before library B, referencing to the same NAS volume but different selection of folders. On one day, though, one of the projects suddenly showed all red badges for the versions, too, but luckily just that project. Aperture showed the volume of the troubled photos was Offline, but it said it was Online for all other photos in other projects. I could not revive that project, so I deleted it and re-imported from the NAS again to build an exact same new project, and it has been working with all others ever since.
I still have no clues about what went wrong to Library B and C (and that single project in Library A). For me they are just like Library A but referring to different set of masters on the same NAS. Under what condition would Aperture consider the same Volume as Offline for some of the versions while Online for others, at the same time and in the same Library? And it's strange that when I work on Library A, Aperture sees the NAS volume as Online, but when I switch to Library B, it sees it as Offline immediately. I am afraid that one day my Library A would unexpectedly become zombie, too, then all my Aperture work will be history.
Has anybody encountered the same situation as mine? Hope I could get some advices here.

I see that now. Though it still could be an issue.
If you could distill your problem down to a short paragraph it might be easier to figure out whats going on.
regards
Message was edited by: Frank Caggiano

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