I gave a presentation at the America's CLA summit this year where I introduced the MGI Solution Explorer.
Here's the link to the presentation information and some documentation (that will be expanded) for the tool.
MGI Solution Explorer Info
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In the later LabVIEW versions, one can open the original copy and select View>>Browse Relationships>>Reentrant Items, and that allows one to open the shared clones.
In older LabVIEW Versions, one can (temporarily) set the VI to "show front panel when calledâ€.
However, if your building a message-based architecture, you can just build in a “show front panel†message to your actors/processes/modules/whatever.
I always copy and paste my vi descriptions into google and see what it thinks. This with a non-modal description editor would save a lot of time. Who would've thought that someone would like to look at the code while documenting it.