Right-click option on error in terminal: Create > No Error Constant

[Lars-Goran]

An old topic but perhaps a new flavor.

I always set error in to required when connecting it to the lower left terminal on the connector pane.

By this I get rid of the so detested "(no error)" part of the control name, and it prevents you from being lazy and not connecting error in for situations where you think it's of no use, but you actually would be better off doing so. It also prevents an unconnected error thread passing through behind the icon, giving the impression that error in is connected when it's not (I've seen this once; quite a nasty bug).

In the few cases where I really don't want (or have) an error thread connected to the VI, I use a home made No Error Constant like this:

So, I would like to have this Right-click option on the error in teminal to simplify this:

A big bonus if NI makes it a constant and uses my minimalistic artwork for the icon 😉 instead of inserting an error ring with 0: no error.

/Lars-Göran

[Taki1999]

I'm not really on board with creating another menu item for such a limited use case. I do like your artwork though. Perhaps a related idea would be to change the collapse behavior of the error constant so that error constants with no error collapse to your checkmark and error constants with an error collapse to an X.

[AbandoningCausality]

You could probably do this with a plugin and a VI with a small icon

[RavensFan]

Why is this necessary?  If you need a No Error going in, just don't wire anything.  Any VI should have been saved with the No Error set as the defaults for the Error In control.

[Lars-Goran]

The reason is that I deliberatly always set  "eror in" to required on new VIs.  I just asked for an easy way to add a "no error" constant in the few cases were I don't want the VI to receive earlier errors.

Today I do this by adding a home made no error.vi just as can be seen in the picture.  It's icon is designed to be intuitive and to occupy a minimum of diagram space.

[nanocyte]

If you have the subVI, you can quick drop it or add it to your pallets. That should be pretty quick

[Darren]

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