Community edition and Add-ons

[RTSLVU]

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@altenbach wrote:

I was under the impressions that the community edition includes the application builder (same as Pro).

Quote from here:

• All of the capabilities found in the LabVIEW Professional editions

Quote from here:

• All the features of LabVIEW Professional Edition for free; no watermarks

Sorry, cannot verify at the moment myself.

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That's what I remember too.

I will have to check my laptop when I get home but I swear I have the Application Builder in the Community Edition

[billko]

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@RTSLVU wrote:

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@altenbach wrote:

I was under the impressions that the community edition includes the application builder (same as Pro).

Quote from here:

• All of the capabilities found in the LabVIEW Professional editions

Quote from here:

• All the features of LabVIEW Professional Edition for free; no watermarks

Sorry, cannot verify at the moment myself.

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That's what I remember too.

I will have to check my laptop when I get home but I swear I have the Application Builder in the Community Edition

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In addition to the app builder, i believe you get the Report Toolkit and one other that I forgot to write down.

[Jjohnn]

Removing LabVIEW from the command line...

I have not done this recently, but the following has worked for me in the past:

https://knowledge.ni.com/KnowledgeArticleDetails?id=kA03q000000YI3pCAG&l=en-US

I had a machine with four or five versions of LabVIEW on it, and it appeared to remove everything, leaving only a few (mostly empty) folder trees in the program files folder.

I am not sure if it left anything else behind.

[psuedonym]

Wanted to update this post.

NI License Manager 21.3

If I click on Product Summary,

it shows that I have 353 days remaining for Development System and Application Builder. 

Yet, if I click on Local Licenses,

it shows that Application Builder is Evaluation and expires May 10, 2022 and Professional Development System is Evaluation and expires May 10, 2022.

Looks like the Professional Development System and Community Edition is sharing the Application Builder.

[billko]

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@psuedonym wrote:

Wanted to update this post.

NI License Manager 21.3

If I click on Product Summary,

it shows that I have 353 days remaining for Development System and Application Builder. 

Yet, if I click on Local Licenses,

it shows that Application Builder is Evaluation and expires May 10, 2022 and Professional Development System is Evaluation and expires May 10, 2022.

Looks like the Professional Development System and Community Edition is sharing the Application Builder.

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I believe that is an accurate statement.

The DB Connectivity Toolkit and the RGT for MS Office are also included in LV Community Edition.  In LV Community Edition, they are included as part of the package, but for LV Pro, they are separate toolkits, but included, which is why LV Pro and those toolkits share the same eval period.

How's THAT for confusing?

[Yu-An]

I have a similar problem. I installed LVCE as it is. All the add-ons are shown as in evaluation. Shouldnt the professional edition covers them all?

[billko]

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@Yu-An wrote:

I have a similar problem. I installed LVCE as it is. All the add-ons are shown as in evaluation. Shouldnt the professional edition covers them all?

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So here's the confusing part.  Community Edition is "separate but equal to" LV Pro in the ways that count.  BUT the stuff that are addons in Pro are included in LV Community Edition as part of the main package and not as addons.  So what you get is lots of confusing entries as License Manager sees the packages and addons as both Community Edition installed and licensed and also as LV Pro Eval.  I hope it makes sense to you because it confused the heck out of me when I saw it.

So what you see there is okay.  LV Community Edition is installed correctly.  I see several addons that are not included in LV Community Edition.  Did you, at one point, have LV Pro installed but not licensed?