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- Users have a long variable path and similarly-named signals they're watching, and would like to have a simpler, shorthand, less error-prone way of referring to these signals (and their paths) in the RT-LAB interface and through Python scripting
- Users work on a simulator or target whose hardware and/or LabVIEW interfaces are changed frequently, or which has multiple users, and they'd like quick, easy access to their variables in a way that remains constant despite other changes to their environment
- Users write and assemble Python scripts in advance, and need to know they can call the signal of their choice reliably when automated scripts are run, without requiring updates to signals and their paths
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