User manuals not updated on NI site

[RobertoBozzolo]

Hello NI, LabWindows/CVI has been released a while ago and 2019 even earlier so why there are no manuals online? We currently have to limit ourselves to 2017

[GerdW]

Hi Roberto,

for LabVIEW the latest help is for LV2018…

(Apart from NXG documentation.)

[Terry_ALE]

Yeah, this is definitely a problem.

[altenbach]

I don't know the details of the LabWindows/CVI manuals. Were there really dramatic changes since 2017? Typically the language does not change that much.

Since somebody mentioned LabVIEW, I am sorry for also hijacking this thread and talk about LabVIEW for a moment:

It is a good idea to consolidate the LabVIEW online help into one version-agnostic online reference, but a few things need to happen:

• they should no longer mention a version directly (e.g. 2018 as they currently do)
• Each help page needs to have footnotes on version specific changes and indicate the earliest version that has the described function. (e.g. maps and sets, 2019+)
• Help pages for new features need to be added!!! (We still don't have online help pages for anything in the "collection" palette that I could find. Again e.g. Maps and Sets, introduced in LabVIEW 2019)

[Terry_ALE]

If they are updating the software enough to charge for upgrades the documentation update should be reflected.

If NI is going a different direction in terms of documentation delivery that should be signaled to the users.

[lagelian]

Thanks for the feedback. Look for an exciting announcement from NI in a few months about a brand new online documentation experience that will address many of these concerns. 🙂

In the meantime, newer versions of the help still ship with the product. Newer versions of the installed help are also attached to the online version.

https://zone.ni.com/reference/en-XX/help/371361R-01/

Angela L. 

Product Owner - Product Documentation

[GerdW]

Hi Iagelian,

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@lagelian wrote:

In the meantime, newer versions of the help still ship with the product. Newer versions of the installed help are also attached to the online version.

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Well, that doesn't help when we would like to provide a link into related (LabVIEW) help articles when writing answers in the LabVIEW board…

[RobertoBozzolo]

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@GerdW  ha scritto:

Hi Iagelian,

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@lagelian wrote:

In the meantime, newer versions of the help still ship with the product. Newer versions of the installed help are also attached to the online version.

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Well, that doesn't help when we would like to provide a link into related (LabVIEW) help articles when writing answers in the LabVIEW board…

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It's the same for me: I'd like to link an up-to-date version of the help when posting to the CVI board.

Of course I know that in my CVI 20xx installation the help is up to date! 😉