[Jonathan L.]

I tested both methods on a robot.

Method 1. I kept the Front Panel (and block Diagram just to be sure) in the build. Once the code was deployed the drop-down menu did not populate and I still got an error about the property node.

Method 2. I put together some code similar to that attached and put it in the Periodic Tasks VI with a While Loop around it and a 5 second delay. It worked. I then moved the code to the Begin VI without the While Loop with success.

Thanks