I have used my personal computer to try the newest version of labview at home with the community version, no problem. These days I need to use labview 2021 for my work, for which I do now get a academic license from my university. The newly installed labview 2021 is still showing it is a community version. My question is: is there a way to force labview to use the academic license instead of picking up the community license? May be it is just not a problem, so far I just use my labview without problem for my professional work. Yes, the license has an issue, but NI cannot sue me since I have the license purchased even though labview does not use it. Thanks!

LabVIEW

labview license switch from community into professional

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@gy10c wrote:

I have uninstall everything from NI and install labview academic version. Without even need to import a license, labview automatically find the license previous imported into NI license manager (the academic one).

Thanks everyone for ideas! Here is a summary of what I have learned.

1. It is not quite clear whether labview community version and professional version share the same binary files. It is not clear if there is a way to switch from community license into academic license or professional license. Seems like no way yet.

2. people may try

move LabVIEW_COM_PKG_220300.lc away from the C:\ProgramData\National Instruments\License Manager\Licenses and see if the Education edition is loaded instead.

Remember to move the file but not remove it.

3. or try download a academic version of installer and install labview. not sure.

4. to enjoy both versions, try VM

It used to be easy to have different flavors and versions of LabVIEW, but not any more. 😞

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