Unspecified error when writing variant shared variable

Question

Hi everybody,
I'm getting an unspecified error (-2147467259) when trying to write a variant to a shared variable hosted on my cRIO device.
I'm using a cRIO chassis as a headless controller that dynamically finds remote ScanIO chassis at startup. Similar to the LabVIEW example, the cRIO finds the chassis and generates clusters containing the IO container refnums as well as other information about the modules. I generate two arrays (local and remote) of these clusters, turn them into a variant, and publish it as a network published shared variable so they can be used in a remote PC to add or remove remote channels as needed.
Has anyone had this sort of issue before? I'm new to real-time so I'm not sure if I have violated some canon here or not Thank you for your help
-Jordan

Answer 1

Jnelson,
There appear to be a few Corrective Action Requests (CARs) associated with using shared variables of the variant data type.  The closest one I could find related to your issue was CAR #291679 where Wiring FieldPoint IO Point into shared variable throws error -2147467259.  All CARs that I could find about using shared variables of the variant type threw the same error you are seeing and are feeding into it less standard datatypes (FieldPoint IO, LVClasses, IMAQ references).
To get a more general overview of your problem, does this error come up the first time you try to write to this shared variable or does it come up somewhat randomly?  It would help if you could tell us exactly what hardware you are doing and if you can recreate this issue by simply deploying a program that writes a constant cluster with the same data types into that shared variable.
A possible workaround for you to try would be using the Flatten to String and Unflatten from String functions and pass that through a string shared variable.  This has seemed to work for others in the past.
Matt J
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National Instruments