DAQmx functions broken in 2011

[dacad]

While I have had 2011 SP1 w/ f1 and f2 installed for a while, I have just come up with an issue that I can't figure out.   I opened an app that had been running in 8.6 and when I did, all the DAQmx funtions broke.  I looked on the vi menu and could not find the DAQmx sub menu.  After some research, I reinstalled the drivers disk and while that got the DAQmx menu back in place, the functions themselves are still broken. (see bitmap for example)

I am suspecting that they went missing after either the f1 or f2 update but didn't catch it until today when I needed to use them.

Even if I drag a new item into the diagram, it still is broken as the example shows.

Am hoping to avoid a complete uninstall and reinstall as that takes [many] hours on my machine so am hoping there is something simple I need to do to get the functionality of the DAQmx tools back.

Any help is very much appreciated

Doug

[dacad]

Had really hoped for some feedback on this but after a good nights sleep, I had some fresh ideas and tried a couple things.

I did a few more trials and discoverd not all of the DAQmx functions were broken, only some of them.  I then compared the list of libraries to those on a known working computer.  Same files. 

So on a whim, I simply copied over the entire DAQmx folder from the working computer to my system and it allowed the functions to all work again.

Would still like to know what would have caused them to break in the first place so if it was something I did, I can learn from it.

Doug

[smercurio_fc]

Copying the DAQmx folder is not the recommended way to to fix the problem. You have no way of knowing whether DAQmx has been truly fixed. You did not indicate which version of DAQmx you had installed, or whether you had installed it with 8.6 or 2011. The version that first came with 8.6 would not be compatible with 2011. You also did not indicate if you had done any installation of other NI software. Did you try opening the DAQmx examples?

[Daniel-E]

Hey dacad,

Have you tried repair-installing or reinstalling DAQmx? That's usually our first go-to troubleshooting step for DAQmx issues that arise after upgrading to a new version or patch of LabVIEW.

Often when you install a new version of LabVIEW, the DAQmx functions won't automatically be associated with it. So when you run the DAQmx installer, it associates DAQmx with the versions of LabVIEW on the system. So if you don't do that last step, you sometimes won't be able to see the DAQmx functions in LabVIEW.

I hope that helps, and let us know if you run into more issues with that.

[dacad]

Granted simply replacing files is not the optimal method to correct a problem as it does not reveal what casued the problem.

I always install the updated driver disk with a new version install so when I installed 2011 [SP1], I installed the drivers (including DAQmx) after the install.  I did install the DSC module after that and then eventually the f1 patch and the f2 patch.

After copying over the known good folder of the DAQmx libraries from another machine, I dragged a previously broken DAQmx function into a blank vi and opened the diagram for the function and it was now valid where previously, it appeared like the example in the originally attached picture.

There very well could be some other broken stuff that I have not come across yet or simply don't use. At this point, working the project trumps fixing uneeded tools.

Thanks for the feedback on this

Doug