String Control - What happened to the "Value" Property?

[FlagFlix]

Hi Folks,

I updated LabVIEW to 2026 Q1 recently and cannot find the "value" property of strings anymore. According to all google sources this property should still exist. Is something wrong with my installation?

thanks in advace!

Felix

This is the property menu in my old version (2015).

[rolfk]

Something is fishy about that string control.

You have a property Value (Undoable) in there which I have never seen. And I'm looking in LabVIEW 2026 Q1 right now!!!!

[FlagFlix]

Exactly my thoughts. But what can I do now? Reinstall LabVIEW?

This was a blank vi with a simple string control.

[Andrey_Dmitriev]

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@FlagFlix wrote:

Exactly my thoughts. But what can I do now? Reinstall LabVIEW?

This was a blank vi with a simple string control.

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Value (Undoable) referred to Variant, interesting, can't reproduce on my 2026 Q1 as well.

Try to close LabVIEW and delete or rename LabVIEW.ini file (near executable), then start LabVIEW and try again, may be something wrong in the settings.

[FlagFlix]

Thanks for the suggestion, but renaming the ini file did not help.

I'll ask my colleague if he has the same problems when he's back from vacation.

[Yamaeda]

Corrupt VI? 

Delete and drop a new string control and/or copy all code to a new VI?

[FlagFlix]

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@Yamaeda wrote:

Corrupt VI? 

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I don't think so, it looks the same in different projects and even in a completely new blank vi.

[fabznx]

If it is just an display error, you could try to create a property-node and use quick-drop.

Select the Property-Node open QuickDrop (Ctrl+Space) and type String and press Ctrl+B. That changes the property node to String

The again Ctrl+Space, type "Value" and press Ctrl+Shift+B. This will select the value-property.

In case this throws an error on "value > Ctrl Shift B", there is IMHO something broken.

[Kyle97330]

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@FlagFlix wrote:

Exactly my thoughts. But what can I do now? Reinstall LabVIEW?

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There is a "Repair" option you can try before doing a reinstall. NI package manager has this option.  Start with just your LabVIEW installs and see what "Repair" does for them, and if that doesn't fix it you can try it on other things like toolkits and drivers.

[Andrey_Dmitriev]

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@Kyle97330 wrote:

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@FlagFlix wrote:

Exactly my thoughts. But what can I do now? Reinstall LabVIEW?

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There is a "Repair" option you can try before doing a reinstall. NI package manager has this option.  Start with just your LabVIEW installs and see what "Repair" does for them, and if that doesn't fix it you can try it on other things like toolkits and drivers.

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Maybe this helps, but still not sure how it got corrupted like that — if ‘Grouped’ Property Node is there, scripting is definitely enabled, but a bunch of other stuff is missing. Here’s how it normally looks with scripting on: