Vision assistant problem

Hi guys,
I am having a problem with vision assistant when i run the script within vision assitant it locates all of my patterns and finds the template file paths etc and all is good. However, when i run my application the vision assistant fails to locate the patterns or the template file paths. Any help in why this is happening woud be of great help.
Regards,
Damien
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Hi,
Thank you for replying. Yes i created inputs paths and i believe the paths are correct. The strange thing is i have a number of inspections that work using vision assistant but for this one inspection it wont work. I have attached a screenshot of the vi with file paths etc. It is the same as other inspections that work so i am lost as to why this particular vi wont locate the templates/patterns.
Damien
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