NIReport no longer supported

[esh51]

Dear NI,

Until lately I worked with CVI 2017. I've decided to move on and I have installed 2019. For years I use NIReport 

to create reports to the customers. To my astonishment, NIReport is no longer supported, meaning a work of years will be thrown away. I have tried other options provided by NI, such as creating a report in word/excel, but neither gave me  satisfactory results

I am developing applications in CVI for 15 years, and had NEVER a problem of backward compatibility. I know other companies  that do not care about their customers, but NI has been never the case.

I hope that NIReport will be back. 

thank you

[bsllc]

Given that NI Reports is gone in CVI 2019, what is the recommended alternative?  

Do you have any idea how long Microsoft will support the active X controls to generate a word report?  I am concerned that Microsoft will change the interface to word, and/or only offer word as a subscription model in the future, which will make my customers unhappy.

My reports need to include complex graphs. 

[bbynum]

Yes, please bring back the report generator as I have used it in all of my applications since about 2000. And that's a lot of code to change!!

Thanks,

--Bill

[RavensFan]

Then click the kudo star to register your vote.  That carries more weight in evaluating ideas then just a simple reply!

[jimc1965]

For years I have used NIReport to create reports, I have many years of multiple programs which use it.  I am amazed that NIReport is no longer supported, because CVI is usually backward compatible.  I have much work and time in these programs and now I will have much more work and time to change these programs to not use NIReport.  Is it possible to still use NIReport?  Can NIReport be included in the next update?

[macksel]

An news for that?

Maybe we can use this here:

https://github.com/AndreRenaud/PDFGen

[macksel]

https://forums.ni.com/t5/LabWindows-CVI-User-Group/Creating-a-PDF-report-with-both-text-and-graphics...

[macksel]

The NI support found a solution. They created a installer with legacyComponents. This installer add all missing components back to CVI 2020. They want to add this to a FAQ. They also say that we can use the Word Report functions, it's a replacement of NIReport function. C:\Program Files (x86)\National Instruments\CVI2020\toolslib\activex\word\wordreport.c. 

Support:

There is still a way to install NI Reports by downloading the CVI 2020 suite media which will be an ISO file, mount it and inside there is a feed (LegacyComponents) that contains the removed packages.

[jerdizzle]

Is this legacyComponents installer part of the LabWindows CVI 2020?  If it is, I am not seeing it.  Can I get a link to it?

[jerdizzle]

Nevermind, I see it when I download the 2020 f2 base/full iso image (install offline option).

[macksel]

@jerdizzle

Does it work for you? I installed CVI 2020 f3 via offline installer (iso). But I cant include it in the Distribution Kit, its not there.

EDIT

Support had said at the time that I didn't have to publish the file here because an FAQ was being created. Unfortunately, I haven't found this yet and support no longer responds. That's why I'm now publishing the file from support.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mfzemC40-2q981HwQHBP9TLNE-rnJjqE/view