Labview 2013 - FRC2014 season - license timeout

[marccenter]

Dear CD,

I just looked at my team's Labview team code from the 2014 season and saw that my license will become de-activated in 4 days. I would also like to "train" some of our students on Labview in the next three weeks using this software. Are there any steps I should be taking prior to my license timeout to allow me to view this year's program after the license timeout?

In addition, I have read in other postings that NI recommends removing the 2013 Labview code prior to the new season to prevent software conflicts. With this in mind, does that impact what steps I should be taking in the month of December?

[Mark McLeod]

The FRC LabVIEW license from this past season does not have an expiration.
In addition, the older expiration dates were always a week after Kickoff, so you've got something funny going on.

Could you have originally installed a non-KOP version of LabVIEW 2013?
I'd suggest reinstalling and re-activating the license from the KOP version.

Into the future, I'd suggest keeping LabVIEW 2013 installed and set aside on some spare machine in order to work with and keep your older cRIOs active and useful.
The new LabVIEW for this year will be backward compatible with the 4-slot cRIOs, but not with the 8-slot cRIOs.
The palettes and code has only a couple of minor changes for 2015, so working under the older LabVIEW should transfer to the new platform pretty effortlessly.

LabVIEW 2013 and this season's LabVIEW 2014 don't cohabitate on the same machine very gracefully.

[GuyM142]

You just need to re-activate it using the same code.