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Issue: Customers have noted that every once in a while, right-click operations implemented in G do not work, but when they try to reproduce the issue, everything works fine. Some users have written the issue off to "I must have clicked the wrong thing." But, no, it turns out that there's a rare race condition in the transaction logic for the right-click plugins. You can fix it by downloading one VI and replacing the version that ships with LabVIEW. Details here: https://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW-Shortcut-Menu-Plug-Ins/Bug-Fix-for-ALL-Right-Click-Menu-Plug-Ins-LV2015-to-2019/ta-p/4016064 The bug? Don't close your refnum while you're still using the refnum. *head smack* And for those of you who tell me that refnum programming is easy, I'm adding this as evidence number N+1 that, "Sure, it's easy... easy to screw up." Long live dataflow! 🙂

He's talking about edit-time panel and diagram menus and run-time diagram menus that are implemented as right-click plugins. This bug fix does not affect right-clicks in the project window.

You can find out more and sign up here: https://forums.jki.net/topic/3082-vipm-2020-beta-sign-up-is-now-open/ here’s a teaser (below). Lots more exciting stuff to come...