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Complete the following steps to control an application or front panel remotely using a Web browser.

Note  The application or VI you want to view must be running on the server computer.

1. View an application or front panel remotely in a browser.
2. Click the bottom of the remote front panel window or right-click anywhere on the front panel in the browser and select Request Control of VI from the shortcut menu. If no other client is currently in control and if no other browser window on the same connection is currently in control, you have control of the front panel. If another client is currently controlling the VI, the server queues the request until the other client relinquishes control or until the control time limit times out. Only the user at the server computer can monitor the queue list.

To completely close the connection to the Web Server running on the server computer, click the close glyph on the browser window border. However, if you want to release control of the front panel but maintain a connection so you can view the front panel, right-click any open space on the front panel and select Release Control of VI from the shortcut menu or right-click an object on the front panel, such as a graph, and select Remote Panel Client»Release Control of VI from the shortcut menu.

You also can use the Application methods to release and request control of a remote front panel programmatically.