My Ethernet/IP VIs work in LabVIEW 2011 but not on 2012

[jdiazdiaz]

I've just installed my Labview 2012 but my Ethernet/IP VIs do not show up in the functions palette. I have a lot of projects that depend on these VIs so I need to get it working. The Ethernet/IP version installed in my machine is  VER 1.2. It still runs on LabVIEW 2011.

[Dennis_Knutson]

Are you taking about the Data Communication> Protocols>TCP palette? Those are part of LabVIEW and don't have a separate version. If you are talking about the Internet Toolkit, that is not part of LabVIEW and like most other toolkits, you would need to reinstall it for 2012.

[altenbach]

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[Diaz-Diaz]

NI has an industrial communications protocol called Ethernet/IP, which is used to communicate with industrial devices such as PLCs. This is the palette I can't find. When I try to install it again it tells me that there is nothing to install. My post has nothing to do with TCP-IP palettes.

[Jason-M]

Diaz-Diaz,

Are you speaking about the NI LabVIEW Driver for EtherNet/IP? If so, it would make sense that you would lose this Palette after upgrading LabVIEW. You will need to reinstall the driver in order to get the palette back. Let me know if this works for you.

Best,

[S1ack]

If the topic / thread starter could confirm that re-installing the Ethernet/IP package fixes the issue I'd be grateful. I have a project using this, and was contemplating upgrading - until I saw this.

[Diaz-Diaz]

I will have access to my system on Wednesday, will tour suggestions then, thanks for your help

[GregFreeman]

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@S1ack wrote:

If the topic / thread starter could confirm that re-installing the Ethernet/IP package fixes the issue I'd be grateful. I have a project using this, and was contemplating upgrading - until I saw this.

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There is about a 99.9% chance this is the problem. If you don't install something, it won't be there. When I have used these drivers, it has always been something you must explicitly install, separate from the base install. I'd just install 2012; I think you're pretty safe in assuming it won't hose anything.

[Diaz-Diaz]

I did try to reinstall the drivers before I started this discussion, however the installer returned the message. There is nothing to install! I have LV2011 running on the same machine as LV2012 as I mentioned before, the EIP VIs still work on 2011. I will try uninstalling the drivers and installing again, my concern is that the toolkit starts working on 2012 and no longer works with 2011. I tried copying the EIP vi.lib directory from the 2011 into the 2012 before and it still didnt work. I will keep you posted

[jdiazdiaz]

I purchased the toolkit when it was initially released. The CD I received had a part number on it but not a serial number. I downloaded the update from the NI page and tried to install it, but it required a Serial Number for activation. My license manager did not have any traces of the previous install since when I initially installed it (LV2011) it didn't require me to run through activation. Fortunately I had recently purchased a couple of extra licenses for my team and used one for this. The toolkit is up and running now. The only thing I dislike is that I was not able to use the license that I had originally purchased.