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So sometimes when you do protocol decoding it is convenient to use a variant to store decoded data. For example you might have a 2 bit enumeration that is decoded like this:

00 -> Good
01 -> Bad
10 -> Ugly
11 -> Catastrophic

If you cast the value to an enumeration that contains these values before hand you can see them on the variant control. If you use a Ring you will only see a value. 

I know that the LV flatten to string contains the enumeration strings but the encoding is a bit of a mystery, although it looks like the openg palette has figured some of it out to some degree. But to me it doesn't look like there is any reason i couldn't generate an enum to use inside the scope of a variant. Has anyone done this, or know how to generate the string for this purpose. 

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Yeah, I was actually doing the opposite. Using an array of strings and a value generating a enum at runtime. I was afraid what i was trying to do might be confusing. I might be getting encoded data from a device and to decode it instead of using a cluster (which contains a great deal of useful information apart from the values) using variant attributes. Since the specification is sometimes in a document it is easier to pull from that source as apposed to decoding everything using LV wires and clusters. However when looking at variant attributes especially for enumerations its hard to see what the value actually means. this allows me to have a probe view of the data that looks like the right as apposed to the left.

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