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LabVIEW community edition won't activate
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And the story repeats now with LabVIEW 2021 Community edition. Yes, I downloaded and tried to activate with the same account and I was logged in with it! And I have 2016 Pro and 2020SP1 CE working. Activation wizard keeps reactivating CE 2020SP1:
But when trying "Activate Remaining" which includes 2021 CE:
I still get:
Going to Local Licenses and right-clicking specifically on the 2021 CE:
doesn't help either:
@styrum wrote:
And the story repeats now with LabVIEW 2021 Community edition. Yes, I downloaded and tried to activate with the same account and I was logged in with it! And I have 2016 Pro and 2020SP1 CE working. Activation wizard keeps reactivating CE 2020SP1:
But when trying "Activate Remaining" which includes 2021 CE:
I still get:
Going to Local Licenses and right-clicking specifically on the 2021 CE:
doesn't help either:
Oh, God, here we go again, like you said. Try renewing your Community Edition license, even if the time isn't up yet. I had the same issue and it worked for me.
@styrum wrote:
Former Russian prime-minister Victor Chernomyrdin used to say (with sarcasm): "Such things never happened before, and here we go again" ("Никогда такого не было, и вот опять!")
How do I "renew CE license"? I don't remember getting it for CE 2020 somehow separately from activation process itself. I remember having issues with activation too, and with a renewal after it expired but don't remember how exactly I finally managed to make it work again. Don't remember much issues with updating to 2020SP1 though.
You need to log in to your account, then from the NI dropdown menu at the top of the page, select Support --> Register and Activate and you should see LabVIEW Community Edition listed. Select "Renew" for your action.
I hope this works for you like it did for me!
There is no such option!
And when I select Activate Software it gets me to a generic activation code generation screen which does not allow to select any software and wants a serial number:
Wow. I agree that this is not intuitive. I wanted to use the Community Edition on my home laptop.
I went to the Community Edition download page with the video of @Darren.
I proceeded to download NI Package Manager from that page.
I proceeded to install LabVIEW with minimal options.
I opened LabVIEW. It asks me to activate. Okay, no problem. I logged in. No-go.
I opened NI License Manager. No sign of the Community Edition.
I logged into my NI Account, and under "My Products," I only see old and expired licenses used at the company I work for.
No sign of Community Edition.
So, I guess the issue for me is associating the Community Edition with my account.
May the odds be ever in your favor.
Mr. Jim
An update:
I found a newer thread started by Altenbach who was graciously assisted by Christina.
Here are the steps that work. (at least for me)
Please note that this applies to a Windows installation, though some steps will apply to other flavors.
- Use a browser without any filtering.
Pitfall 💣 The first mistake I made was to try to do this using Brave, which is my everyday browser. Since I'm on a Windows box, I opened MS Edge.
- Start here on the LabVIEW Community Edition page. It has the embedded video of @Darren
- Click on the "DOWNLOAD NOW" button
- From the resulting menu that appears, select LabVIEW Community Edition
- You should now be at the LabVIEW Download Detail Page
Pitfall 💣 Be sure to set the "Included Editions" radio button to "Community". It is not selected by default.
- Set the "Included Editions" radio button to "Community".
- The gray box on the right-hand side should now read "LabVIEW ... Community"
- Press the green Download button
- Note than an .iso file downloads, not a small installer stub executable. If the .iso file is not downloading, you have the wrong version.
Side note: Per Christina on this post, if you've already downloaded the iso file and you don't have the Community Edition associated with your NI account (maybe you used a browser with filtering), just pressing the green Download button and canceling the download will associate the Community Edition with your NI account.
- At this time, it's a good idea to go over to My Products and verify that the Community Edition license shows up. If it doesn't, try repeating this process with a different browser that has no filtering of any kind enabled. If you already have the iso file downloaded, there's no need to download it again. Start the download, but then cancel it.
- Go to the file location of the downloaded iso file and mount it by double clicking on it.
- Run Install.exe and follow the NI Package Manager installer wizard
- When the installation completes, an "Activate Software" window appears. Select the option that checks your account for licenses.
- If all is successful, there should be a single line with LabVIEW Community Edition under a "1 ACTIVATED" heading.
- Close the window by pressing the Finish button.
- Reboot if you want
- Run LabVIEW. There should be no prompt for license activation.
May the odds be ever in your favor.
Mr. Jim
