Including the NI MAX Configuration in Your Measurement Studio Installer

This article shows how to include the NI MAX Configuration into an installer created with the Measurement Studio Installer Builder. In order to understand the contents of this article, you need to be familiarized with NI MAX tasks, and the Measurement Studio Installer Builder. This article assumes that you have already configured the basic options of the installer with the Measurement Studio Installer Builder Wizard. 

In order to include the NI MAX Configuration in the installer please follow the next steps:

1. Open the Measurement Studio Installer Builder project that you already configured by using the Wizard.
2. Go to the NI Drivers & Components tab and select the Import Measurement & Automation Explorer (NI MAX) Configuration Export File checkbox. This will allow you to include an NI MAX Configuration file in the installer to import NI hardware settings into NI MAX on the deployment pc:
 
3. Either browse to the .nce file that you previously created using NI MAX, or use the Export from MAX button to launch NI MAX Export Wizard and create a NI MAX Configuration file (.nce). In the Related Links section, there is a link with more information on exporting NI MAX Configuration files.
4. If you use the Export from MAX button option please make sure that you check the items that you want to export in the configuration tree by clicking on the checkbox next to the item. In this example we select some NI-DAQmx tasks:
 
5. Optional: Enable Silent Import and select an option from the drop-down menu for the import behavior to silently import the .nce file during installation. This feature will import a hardware configuration file without prompting the user.