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TUTORIAL VIDEOS

Property Inspector 5.0.1 Load and Save Selection (2:47) 8/25/24

Introduction to Property Inspector 5.0 (10:06) 7/16/24

Deleting Dead and Orphan Code (8:06) 9/11/22

Property Inspector 4.0 introduction (16:08) 1/23/22

Property Inspector 4.0 Window Manager (9:15) 12/19/21

10 Steps to Obfuscate LabVIEW Source Code (11:21) 3/21/19

How to Edit over 1000 VIS in Under 2 Minutes Using Scripting (15:05) 3/21/18

Property Inspector 2 Quick Intro (3:22) 4/18/16

Property Inspector 2 Introduction (6:19)  7/26/16

Property Inspector 2 Demo at NI Week 2016 (6:00) 

Full Presentation from the LabVIEW Architects Forum Q2 2016 (40:56)

Individual How To Topics:

Settings:

• Hide Objects with the Object Filter

Select Menu:

• Select a Group
• Select Invert, Previous
• Show Only Selected Items

Favorites

• Recall Favorite Searches

Window Menu:

• Close Opened Windows

Revision 5.1.0.165 April 12th, 2025 (see Help PDF)

• Performance Optimization (up to 4x)
• Removed Show Callers limit of 100
• Removed Sort Favorites from the menu
• Reduced Macro Editor Options for All and True False items
• Fixed sort by Target
• Fixed Select All_1 in Command menu
• Fixed Macro Sort Unsorted
• Fixed Macro Sort sequence
• Fixed Sort after Project is reloaded
• Fixed macro searches for inline not working
• Fixed Save Selection Dialog set to existing only
• Added Sort History to the menu
• Added RUN VI to the macros
• Added %LVDATA, %VIA and %QD to macros
• Added all preset parameters to Macro Editor menu
• Added macro command to Clear Object Cache
• Added macro commands to Add, Delete and Clear Password Cache
• Added macro command to save settings
• Added macro command to log orphans with specified directory
• Added macro command to measure and clear Class Mutation History
• Added macro command to log LabVIEW memory
• Added macro command to log middle Status
• Added macro search options for =, < and >
• Added macro command Select Stop
• Added macro commands to open Editor and Pi5 Macro windows

Revision 5.0.1.148 September 8th, 2024 (see Help PDF)

• Added Save and Load selection to named file
• Added VI Script errors to Log
• Added Log10 to include 0.1 seconds to timestamps
  
• Added Delay option to Instances
• Added Status bar message for select all, none and invert
  
• Added PI Status to display messages during macros
• Added Macro Editor DIR functions to double click and Execute
  
• Added current subdirectory to PI5 Macros title bar
  
• Added Protection editing to Controls
  
• Added preset macro parameters: %Date, %Name, %Path, PI5M, and %Time
• Added check if Called Macro is relative to the default macro directory
• Added "%1" to all generated batch files
• Improved Macro Editor insertion of CR
• Disables Object Filter group on Show All Objects enabled
• Fixed Retain Wire Values failure showing as Not all elements could be opened
• Fixed macro %Parameter limit of 9
• Fixed close seleted windows clears close opened windows

Revision 5.0.0.141 May 27th, 2024 (see Help PDF)

• Fixed Unfilter losing items
  
• Tile use local monitor by default
  
• Added timer to Callers Selection
  
• Removed Item prefix from Type, Name and Path
  
• Rearranged default column order
  
• Fixed search by Show FP when Loaded
  
• Fixed Slash codes not displaying correctly
  
• Added Macro menu, Editor and PI5 Macros selector
  
• Added CLI Interface
  
• Added Call Macro in Macro
  
• Added Call CMD.exe in Macro
• Added Start to call CMD without waiting
• Added PI Log to document macro results
• Added Stop button to Macro operations
• Added PI Cascade to position PI window running multiple instances
• Added Parameters input to PI_CMD, PI_CLI and PI Call

Revision 4.1.5.107 May 12th, 2024 (see Help PDF)

• Fixed Unfilter losing items
• Fixed search by Show FP when Loaded
• Fixed Slash codes not displaying correctly

Revision 4.1.3.103 September 17th, 2022 (see Help PDF)

• Performance Improvements
• Fixed View -> Ascending not working
• Fixed issue deleting from LLBs
• Fixed Window scrolled past last item
• Reversed metric syntax when exporting/copying selection
• Removed Lock Front Panel from Edit Text and Search Text entries
• Optimized Background Scanning

Revision 4.1.0.97 July 23rd, 2022 (see Help PDF)

• Performance improvements
• Fixed Filter by Images, Run-time Menu and Malleable VIs
• Fixed status after delete selected items
• Reduced the minimum size of the window
• Removed Load Time and Window Behavior from Search menu
• Export replaces quotes with single quotes in Description and History Text
• Export adds quotes around History Text
• Limited Select Callers to the first 100 selections
• Launcher closes if Property Inspector is already running
• Added setting to Include Memory (may slow project loading)
• Added several keyboard shortcuts
• Added Delete Orphans Dialog

Revision 4.0.2.86 January 16th, 2022 (see Help PDF)

• Fixed DAQmx shows as invalid vi type
• Fixed FP Objs header does not sort
• Fixed Sort by Column shows Nothing Selected
• Fixed Select Previous bad after sorting, searching or filtering
• Fixed Select Background Updates bad after sorting
• Fixed History and Favorites when \ Codes is enabled
• Fixed editing Class Private Data Description
• Fixed vertical scrollbar updates selection
• Fixed adding favorite when favorites are full
• Fixed Close Opened Windows disabled
• Fixed wrong selection when sorting by column
• Edit class private data keeps date modified if none found
• Does not refresh PPLs in background
• Does not save empty selection in the Previous Selection
• Added Copy Selection to clipboard
• Added Check for Updates in Help menu
• Modified several keyboard shortcuts
• Made the search and edit boxes expandable
• Lowered Cascade, Stack and Tile positions to expose the PI menu bar

Revision 4.0.1.82 September 26th, 2021 (see Help PDF)

• Fixed issue with Tile Window positions
• Fixed error 1055 editing LVClass and Library
• Fixed issue with Trim Description
• Added percentage to some selections
• Added STOP to Edit Selected, Open VI, Open BD, Open Clone, Close Selected, Close Opened, Run VIs
• Added Control-Z for Select Previous
• Added Shift Control-C for Select Callers
• Disables Edit Selected button when pressed
• Prevents Edit Mode Match when Search Text is blank (Shows Enter Search Text)
• Allows edit mode Match to replace with nothing
• Enabled Regular Expression mode for Match edit mode
• Enabled Match Case option for Match edit mode
• Selecting a Favorite sets the Search to the first element
• Preserves trailing spaces on Favorite search text
• Closes reference to project and library when opening another

• Cannot sort by Front Panel Objects when clicking the header

Revision 4.0.0.81 June 22nd, 2021 (see Help PDF)

• Major UI updates
• Major menu changes
• Fixed Load LVLib, LVClass
• Fixed Run Time menu and images types
• Fixed Global VI detection
• Fixed issue running VI Analyzer scripts
• Fixed editing Window Title and Same Name for controls
• Fixed display of Show Front Panel when Loaded
• Updated VI Script template to a working test
• Allows Reloading LVLib and LVClass
• Removed Monitor property
• Improved In Memory detection
• Added Front Panel Objects property
• Added Longer Than and Shorter Than to Compare Modes
• Added Show All Object Types setting
• Added custom list of 12 compound Favorites with keyboard shortcuts
• Added history of last 9 VI Scripts
• Added history of last 9 QuickDrop Scripts
• Added Select Opened Windows
• Added Select Open Windows
• Added Select Callers
• Added Select from Project Explorer
• Added Select Background Updates
• Added Show only Selections
• Added selectable Group Size with Back/Next support
• Added Close Selected Windows
• Added Static Selection feature
• Added Window Cascade, Tile and Stack
• Added option to enable Retain Wire Values on block diagrams
• Added option to open First Clone block diagram
• Added Daemon to refresh in background with selectable delay
• Added separate options to save QD and VI Script edits
• Added system beep if process takes over one minute
• Added open VI warning limits (100 FP/60 BD)
• Excludes vi.lib from dependencies
• Resorts after Reload Project, Library or Class

Revision 3.0.2.65 April 27th, 2024 (see Help PDF)

• Allows edit mode Match to replace with nothing
• Closes reference to project and library when opening another
• Disables Edit Selected button when pressed
• Enabled Match Case option for Match edit mode
• Enabled Regular Expression mode for Match edit mode
• FFixed issue with Trim Description
• Fixed Slash codes not displaying correctly
• Fixed Sort by Column shows Nothing Selected
• Fixed vertical scrollbar updates selection
• Fixed View -> Ascending not working
• Add control-E to open block diagrams
• Add control double click to open block diagrams
• Improved In Memory detection
• Improved Invalid VI detection
• Prevents Edit Mode Match when Search Text is blank (Shows Enter Search Text)
• Removed Monitors and Window Behavior from Search menu

Revision 3.0.1.61 June 27th, 2021 (see Help PDF)

• Minor GUI adjustments
• Fixed Target property
• Fixed Load Class
• Fixed Load Library
• Fixed Re-entrant not editable
• Fixed Sort by class and library
• Fixed order of recent history
• Fixed Reentrant display
• Fixed Global VI detection
• Fixed editing Window Title and Same Name for controls
• Removed Monitor property
• Now supports libraries in libraries
• Removed vi.lib from dependencies
• Does not read the contents of packed libraries

Property Inspector Free 3.0.1 is derived from Property Inspector 3.0. Features disabled in the free version:

• Edit all selected VIs in a single click
• Powerful scripting options allow custom search and edit operations with very little programming
• Multiple VIs can be deleted from the project in multiple locations including LLBs in a single click
• The resulting list can be exported for further analysis

Revision 3.2.0.65 April 19th, 2020 (see Help PDF)

• Fixed issue with loading LVClasses directly
• Fixed issue with loading LVLibs directly
• Fixed the order of the recent item in the History menu
• Searching Data Modified now hides items without dates
• Added STOP button for loading and editing
• Shows folder being scanned when opening a project
• Added Include LVLIBP option to exclude packed libraries
• Added menu shortcuts ^S, ^SHIFT-E, ^0-9
• Performance improvements

Revision 3.1.0.60 November 22nd, 2019 (see Help PDF)

• Fixed Re-entrant not editable
• Fixed sorting by Class and Library
• Fixed VI script cannot be saved
• Added Scan Time property
• Added Show Window when Loaded property
• Added new object filters for Malleable VIs (LV2015+), images and Run Time menus
• Added support for Packed LV Library
•  Shows the same date/time for packed library contents
• Added Compound Sorting option
• Added support for libraries in libraries
• Added new method to detect In Memory
• Improved the settings dialog to make section easier (thanks Jim)
• Added display of search criteria at bottom left corner

Revision 3.0.0.51 February 6th, 2019 (see Help PDF)

• Edit all selected VIs in a single click
• Powerful scripting options allow custom search and edit operations with very little programming
• Multiple VIs can be deleted from the project in multiple locations including LLBs in a single click
• The resulting list can be exported for further analysis

Revision 3.0.0.51 February 6th, 2019 (see Help PDF)

• Added more Error checking to Launcher VI
• Added Minor LV Version number to sorting
• Added more specific processing messages
• Added new Object Types: Control - Typedef, Control - Strict TD, DAQmx, Variable
• Added new properties: Class, Clones, Code Complexity,File Size, Inline SubVI, Inline is Allowed, Library, Suspend when Called, Show menu bar, Total Data Size, Window Transparently, Execution Priority, Preferred Execution System
• Added PERSISTENT SELECTION™ when searching, sorting and filtering
• Added progress bar centered at bottom
• Added separate Object Filters for Typedefs and Strict Typedefs
• Added Timestamp for Class Private Data
• Added Timestamp for LLB folders
• Added viewing and editing Separate Code for Classes and Libraries
• Fixed issue with Refresh Selected
• Fixed sort by Item Type
• Fixed issue running VI Scripts
• Improved project load times
• Memory values are now calculated as 1K = 1024
• Moved blank LV Version to end of list when sorting
• Searches project folder for virtual folders and LLBs to find date and size
• Update selection count of previous count when Update Selection on Failure is enabled
• Updates Timestamp after running scripts
• Updated ALL parameter for better consistency
• Updated ALL parameter to allow for GLOBAL EXCLUSION™ condition

Revision 2.1.1.44 November 6th, 2018

• Fixed issue with Separate Compiled Code
• Fixed issue filtering Classes and Libraries
• Fixed issue with Trim Descriptions
• Fixed Sort by Target
• Fixed Search by Same as VI Name
• Fixed name when a single VI is selected and filter is on
• Fixed issue with Search Example 12
• Update selection count when using Update Selection on Failure
• Added Error checking to Laucher VI
• Added Table of Contents to Help PDF

Known Issues

• Alliance Partner link has changed
• VI Scripts are not updated properly

Version 2.0.1.31, February 29, 2016 (see Help PDF)

• Fixed some Class members show as Not In Memory
• Fixed RunTime Menu and Revision Number not sorting
• Fixed invalid object types
• Suppressed Error dialog for no errors
• Added date modified prompt for year and mm/dd/yy
• Added Date Modified starts with and equals searches
• Added document, class private data and property definition types
• Added double-click on results to open VI
• Improved process timer
• Improved results display

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Revision 1.0.16.17 May 19, 2016

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