turn off license dialog

[JÞB]

---

@crossrulz wrote:

I really don't have an answer for your license dialog.  But are you seriously developing on 85 computers all by different people at the same time?  Seems to me like you could save some money by going to a Volume License Manager and/or order some Professional versions and building executables.

---

Check the OPs signature.  They are doing fine on their VLA If not, that cyclotron can split a license

[crossrulz]

---

@JÞB wrote:

---

@crossrulz wrote:

I really don't have an answer for your license dialog.  But are you seriously developing on 85 computers all by different people at the same time?  Seems to me like you could save some money by going to a Volume License Manager and/or order some Professional versions and building executables.

---

Check the OPs signature.  They are doing fine on their VLA If not, that cyclotron can split a license

---

I only said that because I know of a company that is pretty big in size with a large number of LabVIEW Base licenses.  Most of these licenses are used by 3 people for development and a large number on test sets for technicians to run tests.  They don't believe that they could build executables to run their tests and save tens of thousands of dollars a year by upgrading just a few licenses to Pro (or Developer Suite) and then build executables for thier test sets.

[_Bryan]

---

@BVSmith wrote:

We're not licensing Professional on these 85 machines.  We are licensing "Full".
But the install dialog still doesn't allow us to NOT install it.

And I find it a little strange that you think that 85 installs were messed up some how.

I find your comment about conspiracy a bit condescending.

---

I read the comment "All it says is to leave the serial number blank if you are installing Professional." and assumed you were installing the professional version.  Had you mentioned you were only installing the full version in your first post things may have gone differently.  I did not mean to be condescending with my conspiracy comment, I just could not help myself after your reply of "excuse me".

But it really might be a conspiracy, ok probably not.  But I did find posts back to May 2010 asking the same question about the application builder in LabVIEW 2009.  I actually just looked at a 8.6 installation and it looks like there is not an uninstaller for the application builder for it either.  So they must have made the change after LabVIEW 7 of not including an uninstaller.  But I have had the good luck of having developer versions, so I never really noticed after ver 7.

So yes, you are right that it looks like NI is just throwing the app builder into the installation when you do not have a license for it with no way to unistall it.  I found the help file for 2012 and it does not really help.

http://zone.ni.com/reference/en-XX/help/371361J-01/lvhelp/troubleshooting_guide/   (LV2012)

Installing the NI LabVIEW Application Builder (All Platforms)

The instructions for installing the Application Builder depend on which package of LabVIEW you purchased. LabVIEW Professional Development System—The LabVIEW Professional Development System includes and automatically installs the Application Builder. Therefore, you do not install the Application Builder separately. (Windows) During installation, the serial number for LabVIEW also activates the Application Builder. LabVIEW Full Development System or Base Package—If you also purchased the Application Builder, you receive a separate package for it. (Windows) Install LabVIEW from the LabVIEW Platform DVD 1. During installation, you must enter a serial number for the Application Builder. Locate this serial number on the Certificate of Ownership in the LabVIEW Add-On Software package. If you do not activate the Application Builder during installation, it runs in evaluation mode. You can activate the Application Builder after installing LabVIEW from the License Status window that appears when you launch LabVIEW. (Mac OS X and Linux) After you finish installing LabVIEW, insert the installation media for the Application Builder.

[BVSmith]

I didn't say which one we are "licensing" because the installer is the same for both Pro and Full so it doesn't matter for the question.

[_Bryan]

Not according to the help file I linked to.

[BVSmith]

When you download LabVIEW Development System 2012 from NI.com you get one installer for both Full and Professional.

[JÞB]

Bryan.

There is probably a ini token that could be manipulated to stop the pop-up.  can you attach LabVIEW.ini from a machine that does this?

[BVSmith]

I don't see anything there, but here it is.

[JÞB]

Try removing

"UDCInstallID="b54fcd92-a4d6-490d-972e-db58e0162742""

That kinda looks like a temp key and is absent in my ini

Let me know

[BVSmith]

A likely suspect, but alas it doesn't help removing it.

Thanks for trying.