[finman]

there may be a better way to do this, but i was able to do so as follows(this should work for other devices as well as relays):

-place the "open relay" vi wherever you need it e.g. begin
-right click on the device reference out terminal and select create>constant
-cut and paste the block created into the global variables vi
-you should now be able to access this from the robot data in bundle

please let me know if you have more questions; having a global reference actually made the relays work for me, they had not been doing so previously

-chris