This is one of the things I really like about Lab View, it visually shows you what is happening. Some people just learn better visually.
This picture of Main.vi and Disabled.vi demonstrates both Serial and Parallel operations.
Begin.vi runs first, then Main.vi and the Vision/Timed tasks. This demonstrates serial because nothing else starts until Begin.vi has completed.
It demonstrates parallel because both Main.vi and Vision and Timed Tasks all run at the same time in parallel to each other and are not Dependant on each other to run.
I also used the disabled.vi to show how this mode works
As you can see, even though the robot is disabled, the dashboard is still being created. One thing to note, in this robot mode, all output to spikes, victors, jaguars, servos etc. on the robot are set to no output at all. This is for both safety and game management. Although, there is still feedback to the drivers station.
A perfect example of how this is a good thing is:
In one of our Autonomous routines we use the cameras image on the console to align our robot to the target even though the robot is disabled. We have to manually lift the camera into position to do this because the servo it is mounted to is disabled.