Deploying and Running an Application on a Real-Time Controller

Before you build and deploy your real-time application, test the design using interactive execution to ensure that it runs as you expect. Refer to Testing a Real-Time VI Using Interactive Execution for help testing your design using interactive execution.

To complete this task, you need to establish a network connection to a real-time controller and place the controller on the Design diagram of SystemDesigner.

1. Navigate to the Design diagram of SystemDesigner.
2. Select the application targeted to the real-time controller and, on the Item tab, enable Set as startup.
   Setting an application as startup configures it to execute automatically whenever the real-time controller boots.
3. Right-click the application you added to the controller and select Run.
   Note If another application is already running on the real-time controller, SystemDesigner prompts you to replace the already running application with the new one. Because only one application can run on a real-time controller at a time, you must replace the running application in order to run the new one.
4. When prompted, click Deploy and Restart.
   SystemDesigner builds the application and deploys it to the physical real-time controller. The controller restarts and executes the built application.