Hi there,
I just finished a ton of development and validation work on some custom model plugins for TestStand 2020. I'm about ready to release them to the rest of the team, and I naively thought that I could save these model plugins for previous versions of TestStand. Namely, we are using TS 2019,2017 and 2014 in various places in production. (Yes, we've been meaning to consolidate everything on one version, but that's another discussion.)
The problem I'm having is that, when saving the plugins for TestStand 2019, it seems to work, but the following types are version 20.0.0.166, as opposed to 19.0.0.103:
- NI_ModelPlugin
- NI_ModelPluginComponentDescription
- NI_ModelPluginConfiguration
- NI_ModelPluginConfigurationRuntimeVariables
I have compared these types between TestStand versions, and I see no differences other than version from TS2020 to TS2019.
I've attempted to manually set the versions of all of these to 19.0.0.103 and immediately save for previous to 2019. Unfortunately once I switch to TS2019 it refuses to open the model plugins due to types being 20.0.0.166. For some reason my attempts to manually set the versions of the types fails. It won't even let me open the files to diagnose the issue. (There really has to be a way to improve the workflow here such that it doesn't just flat out refuse to open the files?)
This seems really painful and I've been trying to work around it all day. What's the easiest way to proceed in saving these files for previous versions of TestStand?
Thanks,
Mr. Jim