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Restore the browse functionality

Submitted by Trusted Enthusiast Trusted Enthusiast on ‎01-05-2021 09:17 AM 19 Comments (19 New)
Status: Looking for Maintainer(s)

This idea has been implemented in NIPM 20.7. See this post for more details:

 

https://forums.ni.com/t5/NI-Package-Manager-NIPM/New-20-7-release-of-NI-Package-Manager/m-p/4141857

Stop forcing is to use the website. It is basically impossible to find anything.

 

Restore the browse functionality to NIPM.

Sam Taggart
CLA, CPI, CTD, LabVIEW Champion
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19 Comments
User002
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‎01-15-2021 04:03 PM
‎01-15-2021 04:03 PM

Oh my goodness, yes! I had so much optimism that NIPM would help me manage installation better. If the website was in top form, that'd be something, but I ratify the sentiment here that it's still a maze to navigate. Please, oh, please, bring back NIPM's ability to install stuff.

Neil.Pate
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‎01-22-2021 02:57 AM
‎01-22-2021 02:57 AM

It is tragic that we have to suggest this as an idea. Wake up NI! We are not going to put up with this rubbish for very much longer.

wromeo
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‎01-24-2021 02:59 PM
‎01-24-2021 02:59 PM

Sam,

I totally agree!

This change to NIPM did not improve the productivity of using NI Software, It seems soon a PhD 👨‍🎓👩‍🎓 will be required to install NI software.

Its not only the website, it takes now much more time to find, download and install something than before.

 

ActiveFrontEnd
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‎01-27-2021 12:52 PM
‎01-27-2021 12:52 PM

Please return this functionality.  Or at the very least explain what users get by removing the functionality?  I am very disappointed that NI would use their precious engineering time to remove something that improved the lives of so many customers.

APena
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‎02-03-2021 12:10 PM
‎02-03-2021 12:10 PM
Status changed to: In Development

See post here for more details:

 

https://forums.ni.com/t5/NI-Package-Manager-NIPM/Browse-Products-tab-gone-after-update/m-p/4118453/h...

Chris_Cilino
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‎04-11-2021 10:36 AM
‎04-11-2021 10:36 AM

Hurray! Thank you NI (available in 20.7)

 

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t.kendall
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‎04-12-2021 10:46 AM
‎04-12-2021 10:46 AM

Excellent! Now give me a button where I can save the packages I have installed and install them on another computer.  Also a cli tool for doing the same on a docker container. 

APena
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‎04-12-2021 02:32 PM
‎04-12-2021 02:32 PM
Status changed to: Looking for Maintainer(s)

This idea has been implemented in NIPM 20.7. See this post for more details:

 

https://forums.ni.com/t5/NI-Package-Manager-NIPM/New-20-7-release-of-NI-Package-Manager/m-p/4141857

Dorian_
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‎04-16-2021 02:46 AM
‎04-16-2021 02:46 AM

@t.kendall, the installed Packages are located under C:\ProgramData\National Instruments\NI Package Manager\raw , their package files are under [...]\packages.

 

The cli tool you might be looking for is nipkg.exe, located under C:\Program Files\National Instruments\NI Package Manager.

I'm not sure if there's some online doc about that tool but nipkg help gives you the available functions and nipkg help <function> some details about the specified <function>.