Application builder no longer generally available

[bsvingen]

I have had the Application builder since forever. Up until now it has been sold with an ever lasting license. But installed 2022, and no Application builder. Then this can be found:

"You can also purchase Application Builder separately as an add-on to use with LabVIEW Full or Base until the 2021 SP1 version. 
Please note that moving forward from LabVIEW 2022 Q3 you can only purchase LabVIEW Application Builder via LabVIEW Professional Development System."

The only way now to build applications is to install the professional version. For a relatively low intensity user as myself, this is out of the question. I have no use for the professional edition, not even full, but the application builder is useful.

Are there any other way to get around this, other third party builders, or anything?

 

Thanks

[LogMAN]

4 hours ago, bsvingen said:

Please note that moving forward from LabVIEW 2022 Q3 you can only purchase LabVIEW Application Builder via LabVIEW Professional Development System.

Okay, wow! This is just awful.

4 hours ago, bsvingen said:

Are there any other way to get around this, other third party builders, or anything?

Community edition is equivalent to professional... just saying...

[Gribo]

If you have a permanent license of LV, stick to it. The current subscription model is way too expensive for a casual (<2 projects/year) user. NI didn't add any compelling features to LV since adding maps (2019?).

[Anguel]

Just wanted to point out that with my old perpetual LabVIEW license I could activate LV 2022 Q3 but the application builder was not available.

It turned out that there is a "bug" (strange, strange, strange!) that for some reason did not show Application Builder in NI license manager so I could not even enter my serial.

If this is the case you should download and copy the extra files as described here, so as in my case I was then able to finally activate Application Builder for LV 2022 Q3 via NI license manager.

https://knowledge.ni.com/KnowledgeArticleDetails?id=kA03q000000oziMCAQ&l=de-DE