Polynomial to nominal?

No, the functionality was not taken away in the free editions.

You can still change the data type in the import wizard by clicking on the header, or you can manually set it in the Read Excel operator.

ok maybe I'm missing out something, but I still can't see an option to choose nominal data type (and some other types in previous versions, like numeric..):

no option for nominal...

Ah maybe somewhere along the line from v5.3 the term nominal was changed to polynominal. There are two types of nominal attributes: binominal (true/false) or polynonminal (more than two nominal values). Logistic Regression will need you to change your column to binominal.

ok and how is this best done if I have more than 2 class labels?

Use the Nominal to Binomal operator.

ok thanks, I will do that, however, there seems to be a difference between polynomial and nominal, when I am using nominal dataset to train my SVM model, and later testing a polynomial test dataset on it (which should be nominal and therefore, no difference), the Apply Performance operator gives a warning that my data should also be nominal instead of polynomial...

Yeah, there might be a problem in the meta data propogation, that happens sometimes but it should run.