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I use the ctrl-L shortcut key to bring up the Error List Window. Broken actor will have a red X.

I don't know how secure the database itself would be when exposed to the internet. I suppose in theory it could be hardened, but theres a lot of surface area you have to understand. I'd lean towards a web server myself, as this lets you tightly restrict what you're going to let clients do. For encryption, I know the labview http client supports tls, and it looks like mysql does too, if configured. From labview you'd have to use the odbc/activex connector, since labview doesn't have built-in tls support (just the http client). Https is almost certainly more firewall friendly.

One trick I've done in the past is to include a static reference to an empty subVI that I know will install in the same subdirectory as my plugins, and get the path to that subdirectory from the VI reference. Then I do a recursive directory search from that base directory for my plugins.

The XNode uses a CLFN with the library wired by path. I have used this CLFN inside an executable, see if it works for you.