Remote panel portals?

Hi all,
We are looking to provide a solution for the control and display of multiple instruments by 2 workstations on a network.
We need the ability for a user at one workstation to assume control of some of the instruments, whilst the other user controls a different set of instruments.  Both users will need to see the display from all instruments.
Remote Panels seem to allow control of the server vi to be switched between server and client, but the control switch functionality appears to be for the whole application.
Is there any way of creating a 'portal' that holds control panels for each instrument allowing the user to elect which device to control?
Best regards
Phill

Hi Phill,
The following document describes what you're trying to achieve. I believe the example uses the Internet Toolkit though:
http://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/tut/p/id/4041
Would it be feasible to have the two different sets of controls on two different VI front panels? It may be more straight forward to implement it in this manner.
There are also some licensing considerations to bear in mind, see the following links:
http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/18C057D7C5A8EA0486256CAE0069557C?OpenDocument
http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/2E814A22B7660EA786256BD500652F2C?OpenDocument
Sarah
Applications Engineer | National Instruments | UK & Ireland

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