Compatability Issue With Trad Ni-DAQ and LabVIEW 8.2.1

[Ryan23]

I am wondering if anyone is aware of any issues using Traditional Ni-DAQ and LabVIEW 8.2.1.  I did all the installation procedures correctly and Traditional NI-DAQ appears in MAX but I do not get it under the "Measurement I/O" tab in the Functions Palette.  Additionally, when opening my created VI's LabVIEW can't find certain standard VI's which may have come from earlier versions of LabVIEW, i.e. "AI Parameter.vi", "AI single buffer.vi", "AI hardware Config.vi", etc.

[Tom_W_[DE]]

Hi Ryan-

I'll assume you're using Traditional (Legacy) NI-DAQ 7.4.4 since that version shipped on your LabVIEW 8.2.1 DriverCD.  If not, feel free to upgrade.

In order to add LabVIEW support for your version of LabVIEW you'll need to follow these steps from the Traditional NI-DAQ readme (assuming you previously installed Traditional NI-DAQ before upgrading to LabVIEW 8.2.1):

LabVIEW Support

Starting with version 7.4.2, Traditional NI-DAQ (Legacy) will install support for the latest version of LabVIEW found on the system. If you require support for more than one version of LabVIEW, complete the following steps:

1. Install Traditional NI-DAQ (Legacy) 7.4.4.
2. Restart the system.
3. Copy the following folders from the latest version of LabVIEW to the folder of the older version of LabVIEW. [LVDIR] indicates the folder of the latest LabVIEW version.
   • [LVDIR]\vi.lib\daq
   • [LVDIR]\examples\daq
   • [LVDIR]\help\lvdaq.chm
   • [LVDIR]\menus\default\daq

You should now be able to use Traditional NI-DAQ (Legacy) with both versions of LabVIEW.

The Traditional NI-DAQ (Legacy) API is mass-compiled in LabVIEW 7.0. This will not affect the functionality of your VIs. However, LabVIEW will prompt you to save the Traditional NI-DAQ (Legacy) subVIs if your LabVIEW version is greater than 7.0. To avoid the prompts, mass-compile the folders referenced above. If you require Traditional NI-DAQ (Legacy) support for earlier versions of LabVIEW, you need an earlier version of Traditional NI-DAQ (Legacy).

Note  The Traditional NI-DAQ (Legacy) 7.4.2 and later installer will remove any existing Traditional NI-DAQ (Legacy) support for LabVIEW. If you are installing Traditional NI-DAQ (Legacy) 7.4.2 and later to upgrade an existing Traditional NI-DAQ (Legacy) installation, you will notice that Traditional NI-DAQ (Legacy) support will only be available in the newest version of LabVIEW installed in your system. To restore support for other LabVIEW versions, follow the above steps. It is important to copy the support to all versions of LabVIEW immediately after the Traditional NI-DAQ (Legacy) 7.4.2 and later installation is complete.

Hopefully this helps-