How do you add or remove toolboxes from the Apps tab?

My Apps tab shows a lot of toolboxes that I can't use because they were installed with a trial version of Matlab (with temporary licenses). It also doesn't show some of the toolboxes that I do have current licenses for. But I can't figure out how to change which ones are listed there.

Answer 1

[Andreas Goser]

First a note about the apps tab. You will find user interfaces for toolboxes there, in case there are UI. Some tooloboxes have one or multiple, some no UI at all (only functions). This means it is not necessarily you are missing toolboxes your are entitled to use. 'ver' command returns what is installed, with the 'license' command you can figure if it is licensed. You could also try running a demo/example to verify.

For uninstalling a toolbox you do not use, run the uninstall.exe. In my installation e.g. in C:\Program Files\MATLAB\R2015a\uninstall\bin\win64 . You can check on and off what you want to keep or uninstall.

[sewood]

Thanks for your response Andreas. I didn't know the apps tab only shows toolboxes with a UI, so maybe that explains why it doesn't list my Mapping Toolbox there. And uninstalling toolboxes would certainly be one way to remove them from the apps tab. But I don't want to uninstall anything until I determine whether or not it's licensed.

I knew about the "ver" and "license" commands (I should have mentioned that), but "ver" only shows what's installed, and as far as I could tell, "license" only tells you if a certain toolbox is licensed or not, and only if you know the exact syntax it expects for the toolbox name (the toolbox names listed by "ver" are not the right syntax: e.g.

>> license('test','Curve Fitting Toolbox')

ans = 0

>> license('test','Curve_Fitting_Toolbox')

ans = 1

So assuming you could figure out the necessary syntax somehow, you would still have to check each installed toolbox one at a time -- very tedious. Some acceptable toolbox names are listed in the help documentation for the "license" command, but not all of them. So there still seems to be no way (within Matlab) to easily check which of your installed toolboxes are licensed.

[Andreas Goser]

I understand your point. I just explain what I know. You can also open the license file and see what came with your demo.

In larger organizations, the "easy way to find out which toolboxes are licensed" is a different task. As typicall, you have them licensed, but not always in the quantitiy that is needed in peak times.