right-click fix coercion (red dot) via autoselected vi inserted upstream

[EngrStudent]

This is coercion:

Best practices say it is bad, so how do I fix it?  Mindless hunt?  Try them all?  Sometimes I can't change the upstream data because it is "fresh out of the file-read".  Sometimes there is no in-VI upstream to modify outside of the read itself, and that can be challenging with mixed, not explicitly typed data.

suggestions:

• I should be able to right-click on the wire an have an option "insert explicit conversion" and have it pick the one that I need, the one it is doing inside the dot, and insert it into the wire just upstream of the conversion dot.
• I can configure the outputs representation of many VI's.  Can I configure the input representation?  That would be explicit.

[crossrulz]

You might be interested in this community plugin: EasyConvert

[EngrStudent]

@crossrulz - that is a thing of beauty. 

[Darren]

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@EngrStudent wrote:

Best practices say it is bad

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Not always: http://labviewartisan.blogspot.com/2012/08/whats-deal-with-coercion-dots.html

[AnthonyDeVries]

It never bothered me.  In most cases, the coercion dot is really convenient, as it removes extra obvious conversions on the block diagram.

If you really need to remove the coercion dot for some reason, in almost all the cases I have come across, the solution is not to just add a conversion directly before, but to have that conversion done far ahead...  often in other VI's.   

Seems a feature I would never use...    And the 'insert' option on the wire is quick enough for those few times I do want to explicitely add a conversion directly before.

[Darren]

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