From Friday, April 19th (11:00 PM CDT) through Saturday, April 20th (2:00 PM CDT), 2024, ni.com will undergo system upgrades that may result in temporary service interruption.

We appreciate your patience as we improve our online experience.

Home Community Idea Exchange LabVIEW Ideas Idea

LabVIEW Idea Exchange

cancel
Turn on suggestions
Auto-suggest helps you quickly narrow down your search results by suggesting possible matches as you type.
Showing results for 
Search instead for 
Did you mean: 
0 Kudos
Philipps

Why is Labview so bad in downwards compatibility?

Submitted by Member on ‎04-15-2021 08:37 AM 2 Comments (2 New)
Status: New

I installed LabVIEW 2020 on my PC and my friend is working with LabVIEW 2016 every time I open his projekt now it gets upconverted and if I downconvert it to 2016 I can only do it via the special option, which does not even allow me to overwrite the original 2016 files. Iam stuck with 2020 since I did not buy SSP GREAT, how is this in any way userfriendly? Its worse then the compatibility of Word with Libre office.

 

That was Bryans original post 12 years ago, its still the same.

https://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW/How-do-I-continue-to-save-for-previous-version/m-p/4143151#M1194547

2 Comments
wiebe@CARYA
Knight of NI Knight of NI
Knight of NI
‎04-15-2021 09:26 AM
‎04-15-2021 09:26 AM

So, what's the idea?

Search LabVIEW like a graph!
0 Kudos
crossrulz
Knight of NI Knight of NI
Knight of NI
‎04-15-2021 09:36 AM
‎04-15-2021 09:36 AM

And your LabVIEW 2020 license will work for LabVIEW 2016 or any earlier version.  So, yes, you can install LabVIEW 2016.

GCentral
There are only two ways to tell somebody thanks: Kudos and Marked Solutions
Unofficial Forum Rules and Guidelines
"Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God" - 2 Corinthians 3:5
0 Kudos