Composites can be converted from linked to embedded and vice-versa. There are many reasons that you might want to convert them from one type to another:
Perhaps you need to make a structural change in a composite that is linked, but you do not want to affect other composites that are also linked to the same library composite.
Perhaps you created an embedded composite that could be used multiple places in your application. You would like to be able to use it in multiple algorithms and maintain it in one place.
Perhaps you want to replace a composite's links to a particular library composite with links to a different library composite.
You can convert composites to different types and establish different links using the Convert command in Control Studio. The conversion options in Control Studio are as follows:
Convert to Embedded
Convert to Existing
Convert to New
To accomplish a conversion, right-click the composite in a diagram, and then select Convert. Click To Embedded if you want to change a linked composite to embedded or click To New if you want to change an embedded composite to a new linked composite. Click To Existing to convert an embedded or linked composite to a linked library composite that exists in the library.
If you convert an embedded composite to a linked composite, the embedded composite will no longer exist in the database.
During any of these conversions, wires to parameters of the same name are maintained. However, the values defined for those parameters with the same name are inherited from the new block. Parameters that no longer exist after conversion lose their wired links and the default values.