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@ElioTx wrote:

Should it show up here? 

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Yes, you should be able to right-click on "Community Edition" there and choose either deactivate or reactivate.  I take it that you have no such choices?  😞

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You are correct. I am not seeing the button to de-activate. 

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@ElioTx wrote:

You are correct. I am not seeing the button to de-activate. 


I am sorry, but I am out of ideas.  I wish I could help more.  😞

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I followed the approaches that worked for other users here but I was unable to get it to activate.

 

1. I logged in

2. Went to My Products

3. Downloaded the LabView Community Edition from the link in the drop down

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4. Installed

5. Activated... well... at least I tried to do so.

 

Apparently in the NI License Manager it does not list the Community Edition under LabVIEW 2020.

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You may notice the suspicious lack of Community Edition in that list.  How do I fix this?  I have uninstalled and reinstalled twice.  This is on a PC that has never had any NI software installed on it previously.

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I also can't find a way to activate LV2020CE. I looked in my products and it says No serial number, I only have 6 days left on evaluation of 7 days total. I really want to get some time in on deciding if I want to buy this but I have to say I can't begin to get up to NOVICE level in 7 days. I really hate the thought of going back to straight C# in VS because this looks like a time saver. I was logged in to download, had to be to get the download to run.

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I used Lab Windows in the 1990's and our organization moved away from all NI products. I'm starting to understand why all over again. I guess straight TCP/IP in VS C# is where we will go. We have a lot of custom hardware to manage any way. Thanks for the support, such that it is.

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Hi CodeDog, 

 

Can you tell me if you're trying to activate LabVIEW Community Edition for Mac, Linux, or Windows?

 

Thanks,

Mackenzie

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Hi, Ms. Mackenzie - thanks for responding to my cry for help!  I am also unsuccessful at activating my LabVIEW CE, and I was upgrading from LV CE 2020 (on Windows).

 

I made sure to use the same account to activate as I did to download.

 

I've seen Linux users having issues as well.  I remember when LV 2020 CE first came out, many people - myself included - had activation issues.  I hope you can help us again.  🙂

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@CodeDog wrote:

I also can't find a way to activate LV2020CE. I looked in my products and it says No serial number, I only have 6 days left on evaluation of 7 days total. I really want to get some time in on deciding if I want to buy this but I have to say I can't begin to get up to NOVICE level in 7 days. I really hate the thought of going back to straight C# in VS because this looks like a time saver. I was logged in to download, had to be to get the download to run.


LabVIEW CE is FREE.  I hope it's not too much of a burden to bear if you end up not liking it.  😉

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Hey, I noticed in my License App, the two toolkits got "left behind"; that is, they are still listed under LV 2020.  Would that be something that would affect the activation?  Or, because they are toolkits, it shouldn't matter?

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