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Trying to repair NI RIO on my machine NIPM keeps asking for the location of the VI Package Manager RunTime Engine: And the location it shows is of cours enot accepted (nor can I find one that it does accept). The funny thing though is that this happens even after I have uninstalled all parts of VIPM(!). Reinstalling VIPM does not resolve the issue either...Any ideas?

This was on a machine with only one version of LabVIEW/RIO ever installed on it - 2020.

I suspect that the issue was that after installing VIPM as part of the LabVIEW installation I had applied an update to VIPM. NIPM offered me to uninstall VIPM, but I noticed that after uninstalling in NIPM (and NIPM reported that no VIPM was installed) I could still find VIPM under Programs and Features. Once I uninstalled it from there as well I was able to run the repair from NIPM. If this is the case the issue could perhaps reappear though, due to the VIPM update function....If NIPM is not directly involved it loses track of what is installed and from where...?

Some packages (specifically if using NI License Manager API) require VIPM and LabVIEW to be started as administrator. It'd be great if there would be a "requires admin rights" flag for the package.

Hi Ivan. Yes, VIPM checks the package integrity. I think it must be an issue that VIPM Community is not running the post-build custom actions. I'll have our team look into this as well. I'll ping you offline about how we can get a work-around for you.

This is very small issue, but anyway let me post it here. It would be nice to set scrollbar in the list to the start position, when the view is shown. Because now it happens that, for example: user opens "New Releases" view; scrolls down; presses "Go back"; presses "Most Installed" button; Most Installed view is opened, but the scrollbar is set to previous position as it was at "New Releases" view. And it could be a bit confusing, because if user does not notice scrollbar position, he could think that those items in the list are the top one, but indeed th

Hello @Jim Kring, thank you for the provided files for unpack/repack the package. I've tried to implement post-build action, but seems that there are 2 issues. 1. Seems, that post-build action is not executed. I've put breakpoint to post-build action VI - and nothing happened during the build, VI was not executed. Also, spec file was not modified. Could it be the bug, and post-build action is disabled for Community edition (the same situation as with flags?). 2. I've prepared VI in order to modify package manually (as post-build action was not called). When I

OK, I think we're getting closer to figuring this out. It appears that when VIPM Community is activated the Restart LabVIEW setting is not being applied correctly to the built package settings -- this is a bug. It'll file a bug for this and have our team look into.

Hi @Jim Kring, thank you for update; I'm going to try that post-build action. This build was done using Community Edition (and I'm working on open-source toolkit). Did you check please that this option is really set in spec file? But maybe if you use another build, that issue does not exist there already (I have VIPM 2020.3, build 2540). Thanks a lot for your help!

Thanks for that extra info @kosist. We're going to look into this much deeper, but I wanted to give you a quick response with a possible work-around. If you create a post-build custom action (Note: This requires VIPM Pro or VIPM Community, and won't work with VIPM Free) you can unpack the package (meaning: unzip the .vip file to a folder), modify the spec file (set the "restart labview..." key to TRUE), and then repack the package (zip it back up into a .vip file). Please let me know if this makes sense or if you need help. Here's a screenshot of how you would call this in your

Hello @Jim Kring, sorry for the confusion, have no idea why I've written like that... What I meant - is that LabVIEW is not restarted after toolkit is installed. I'll update original post, sorry for that. I've checked spec file as you've suggested, and really there is set "FALSE" flag for LV restarting. Let me show the screenshot of toolkit's configuration, and resulting flags in spec file. Let me also attach dummy package which reproduces the issue. Thank you very much for your help! Restart Issue Toolkit.zip

Let me share the following idea. It could be nice to extend VIPM login feature in a way that it would allow to store list of installed packages based on machines, and LabVIEW versions. When user is logged in - he could create such configurations, and synchronize them across machines. Configuration could be stored online, along with credentials used for VIPM login. It could allow then to login into VIPM, see and install missing packages on the particular machine. I know that it is possible to create vipc files, but anyway this does not guarantee that package configuration file wi

What is the format for the "Types and Defaults" input?

I think I see what you're saying -- if an older version of the package is published in a repository, but the installed/latest (i.e. displayed) version is not published, it would be helpful to know that it's a development version that's not yet "officially" published to the repo. This is different, perhaps, than a package where no versions are published. Idea: Maybe VIPM should display "Local" as the Repository name if no versions of the package are published. This deserves some more thought, for sure. I'm glad you have a workable solution, for now. Thanks for sharing these ideas.