Rs232 read and write from pressure transducer with command.

New to LabVIEW and have my first task. I have connected to a Setra pressure transducer via rs232 in Com port 4. I'm trying to track and log pressure over a given period of time. A command of "P" must be sent to the transducer for it to return a pressure reading. By searching, so far I have VISA open, close, read and write on my block diagram. I tried to create a constant from the VISA read resource name and connect it to COM4, but that did not work. Not sure how to accomplish my goal or how to wire everything up correctly. Any help for a beginner is appreciated.

That error is due to some process already having exclusive rights to the port. Do you have Hyperterminal or something else the could be using the COM port open? Did you not close out the VISA reference during previous runs?
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