AI acquire waveform

For my project, I am using a last year student's VI as reference, but when loading it up, it asks for a "AI Acquire Waveform.VI" which I cannot be found, and there is no "data acquisition" tab under which it is normally found according to the manual, why is this?

Hi AV34,
What versions of LabVIEW/DAQ do you have installed?
If you installed DAQmx 8.0 then the traditional drivers (NI-DAQ) would not have been installed.
You need to install DAQ 7.4.1 or earlier onto your computer to get the traditional DAQ vi's.
They can be found at the following address:
http://digital.ni.com/softlib.nsf/websearch/3dbf3d343476a28f8625709e006a4937
All that said and done.. What aquisition device are you using? (DAQmx might be the beter way to go)
Many Thanx
AdamB
Applications Engineering Team Leader | National Instruments | UK & Ireland

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Hi,
I've found a Knowledge Base on the NI website describing some situations where this problem occurs:
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Helleo Labviewguru,
Yes, I did tried to see those examples but I could not display on a chart nor store to an array and save to a spreadsheet file when I used the AI Config.vi, AI Start.vi and the AI Read.vi(in a while loop). Can you please help me with this.
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