VI Properties Editor is a free, open-source utility that allows the user to mass edit VI properties and documentation by loading a folder, project, library, or class. After installing, it can be found in Tools > Redhawk > VI Properties Editor.
Features of VI Properties Editor:
- View VI Description formatted so that bold tags become bold text
- Ctrl-B shortcut to add bold tags to VI Description, Ctrl-Shift-B to remove nearest tags
- View all controls or only controls on the connector pane
- Copy a VI's properties to all other VIs with the same name
- Add or edit copyright info for all VIs or one-by-one
- Filter and sort VIs by custom filters which can leverage regular expressions
- Filter on saved data or edited data
- History of last 10 folders selected kept in Recent Folders
- History of last 10 projects/libaries/classes selected kept in Recent Files
- History of last 10 custom filters used kept in Recent Filters
- Optional confirmation dialogs for various high-risk actions
Properties of VIs that can be edited:
- Window Title
- Same as VI name?
- VI Description
- Help Path
- Help Tag
- Control names (labels)
- Control descriptions
- Control tip strips
The source code for this utility is a fork of VI Properties Editor by Merecs Engineering, which itself is a fork of VI Properties Editor by NI. See below for links to those upstream sources. If you find a bug or have a suggestion for an improvement, feel free to create an issue on GitHub.
Originally hosted at: https://bitbucket.org/merecsengineering/vi-properties-editor
Migrated to GitHub on 2026-02-05.
Fork of NI Properties Editor: https://forums.ni.com/t5/Developer-Center-Resources/VI-Properties-Editor/ta-p/3492371
V1.3.0
- NEW: Add Copyright to all VIs
- BUG: Fixed: Copyright added always a new line
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