Create a Place VI Contents

link: Create a Place VI Contents Author:Jarrod S

(Note: The following shortcut was originally posted by Jarrod S. on the NI Forums here. I decided to give his shortcut a more permanent home in the Quick Drop Enthusiasts group.)

This Quick Drop Keyboard Shortcut allows you to create a Place VI Contents VI (formerly called a "Merge VI") of your diagram selection and automatically create a user.lib palette entry for it, so that you can easily drop that selection of code in the future. Follow these steps to use this shortcut:

Save the attached VI in your \resource\dialog\QuickDrop\plugins folder. No LabVIEW restart is required. Select something on your diagram that you wish to make into a Place VI Contents VI. Press Ctrl-Space-Ctrl-Shift-G. Specify a name for this Place VI Contents VI. Create an icon

Now you have a Place VI Contents VI that contains this diagram selection that you can use from your palettes (or Quick Drop). Note that in step (3) above, if you had pressed Ctrl-Space-Ctrl-G instead, the palettes would not be refreshed automatically, and you would have to restart LabVIEW in order to use the new Place VI Contents VI.

Note: All Place VI Contents VIs that are created with this shortcut are stored in \QuickDrop Templates. The actual .mnu files that provide the palette entries are stored in \user.lib\QuickDrop Templates Palette.mnu.

Default Shortcut - [G]
Default Shortcut - [Shift][G]