2016 Dashboard Project

[Robodragons4630]

I made a dashboard project but I can't use it. Whenever I go to the dashboard to put it on there it keeps trying to load labview 2014. How to do I use the dashboard I created in LabVIEW 2015?

[Greg McKaskle]

Just use the File>>Open to open the project. Or you can use the Open with... popup. Windows and double-click is a bit like playing the lottery.

Greg McKaskle

[Robodragons4630]

Sorry, I'm confused on what you are saying. It won't let me open it in LabVIEW 2014 because I used LabVIEW 2015. When I'm in the DS and change it to LabVIEW it takes me to 2014 and doesn't let me use 2015.

[JeffB]

Close LabVIEW 2014.

Open LabVIEW 2015.

Then, try to open the project either through LabVIEW or the method you've been using.

If you have multiple LabVIEW installations on your PC, opening through Windows Explorer will use the most recently opened version of LabVIEW. As the code was written in 2015, you'd need to open LabVIEW 2015 and save it for an older version. This isn't very helpful to you as you'll need to use LabVIEW 2015 for this year's competition. It's in your best interest to open this version and develop for the season here.

[Alan Anderson]

I think your use of terms is confusing us.

What does "go to the dashboard to put it on there" mean? Tell us what you click on, and what happens when you do it.

When you say "it takes me to 2014", what exactly are you trying to tell us? Describe what the screen is showing, and if it's not what you want it to do tell us what you think it should be doing instead.

[Robodragons4630]

When you are on the driver station under the settings tab you get the choice to change your team number and the dashboard. I select Labview and it tries to use labview 2014 to do so when 2014 isn't even downloaded. I created one using labview 2015 and I can't figure out how to use it.

[Alan Anderson]

I don't understand what "tries to use labview 2014" means. Is the computer opening a LabVIEW project and giving an error message? If so, please do us the courtesy of telling us what that message is.

Just let us know what the screen is showing. Better yet, post a screen shot. Don't try to interpret it right now; let us do that. There might be something obvious that you're disregarding as unimportant, or you might be focusing on something that doesn't matter.

[Mark McLeod]

Originally Posted by Robodragons4630

I created one using labview 2015 and I can't figure out how to use it.

Build your new Dashboard project,
Then copy the exe to C://Program Files/FRC Dashboard
Then on the Driver Station setup tab choose the Default Dashboard.

In your Dashboard project you can modify the build properties to automatically put any new exe into that directory.
Just right-click on the Build Specifications->FRC_Dashboard and choose Properties.
You'll see the Destination directory specified right there and you can browse to the Program Files/FRC Dashboard

[Robodragons4630]

Originally Posted by Mark McLeod

Build your new Dashboard project,
Then copy the exe to C://Program Files/FRC Dashboard
Then on the Driver Station setup tab choose the Default Dashboard.

In your Dashboard project you can modify the build properties to automatically put any new exe into that directory.
Just right-click on the Build Specifications->FRC_Dashboard and choose Properties.
You'll see the Destination directory specified right there and you can browse to the Program Files/FRC Dashboard

Thank You. After following what you said it worked for me.

[Greg McKaskle]

Thanks for clarifying the problem. What Mark described will work, and I believe it would also be fixed by using the Getting Started window to make a dashboard template. Building the dashboard, and then making the DS selection that you made.

Greg McKaskle

[Mark McLeod]

Most teams I run into with this issue create the dashboard on a different programming laptop and transfer the executable over to a different dedicated driver station laptop.
Then they aren't sure where the choices on the Setup are looking for the Dashboard file.