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A new chapter in the NI saga? Found in a recent SEC disclosure (I was trying to figure out whether the slow increase in NI stock value since last November was due to something else than the recent announcement that they were firing 10% of their employees to increase the shareholder happiness): "On January 3, 2021, Carla Pineyro Sublett, the Company’s Senior Vice President, Chief Marketing Officer, and General Manager of the Portfolio Business, and a named executive officer, notified the Company of her intent to resign from the Company, effective February 1, 2021, to pursue other opportunities." Who is Carla? Well, she is Mrs Super Green in the flesh: Carla Piñeyro Sublett - NI, first ever Chief Marketing Officer for NI. Intrigued, I looked around and found a couple of (moderately) interesting podcasts: Carla Piñeyro Sublett - Top podcast episodes (listennotes.com) in which she sounds like a very capable lady, and confess that she "discovered" that the company was in need of not just a rebranding (which she carried out brilliantly, we will all agree) but a complete reform. Her decision seems to indicate that that opinion might not have sounded too great to her top brass colleagues... I want to believe she was sincere when she says (said) that her customers are amazing people (a little bit emphatic, are we not?), and that they should be empowered (hence the picture of someone I assume is a customer "engineering ambitiously" on the landing page). I am not sure whether that meant "listened to", but if that was it, she definitely was onto something. NI: if your customers don't think you have what it takes to provide them with the tools they need to stay on the top, what do you think will happen? And if you don't want this to happen, what do you think you need to do?

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It's a separate library. Object composition was actually much more difficult to figure out than the other way around. I have attached the library for LV2017 (without test suites and package configuration). I'll also put this on GitHub in the near future. Here is an example that overwrites elements in the private data cluster (the outer IPE addresses the class hierarchy). Here is an example that uses JSONtext to extract data from a private data cluster. I was looking into this particular case as a way to transition from clusters to/from objects Both examples are included in the package. Object Decomposition LV2017.zip

Brute force. I suck at scripting. I add 20-30 more cases every so often. Maximum possible with this method is 255. This VI is part of the "JDP Science Common Utilities" vipm package, BTW, so one doesn't need to install JSONtext to use it. Originated in the conversations on this idea: Convert an Array of Variants into a Cluster. I wish NI would just implement that idea so this stopgap would be unnecessary, so please kudo that idea. I used to use OpenG Variant Tools a lot, but replaced them with the newer NI functions once they became faster (about LabVIEW 2012, I recall) and I had this workaround. The only missing functionality from OpenG is the ability to set the name of data in a cluster (the above SubVI create a Cluster with generic element names; I decided to just live without that.

here a post on how to update to the last sql libraries (3.34) to run successfully that example on NI RT