Animation nodes custom property can not share value in a loop to another object gives Invalid Network

Question

Preface: I have 4 objects in the scene. Two Controller Objects that each have a custom property "startTime" and two secondary objects that will receive the "startTime" from the Controller objects. This is a SUUUUPER common pattern in programming and game design, and I would like to keep it like this cause only one object should send a trigger event like a collision to tell its need to know objects to start animations. In game engines I typically also have a special property array(s) to handle linking objects instead of parenting and traversing as a note about "need to know" objects.

Issue: When I individually select a Controller object and submit its custom property "startTime" to the receiver object I get no errors. But when I perform the same in the loop system Animation Nodes provides I get Invalid Network

Below are screen shots, the loop works if the frame on "Object Action Output" is inputed from the origin object, but Invalid network if I feed it from the controller object. But if I do this outside of the loop it works fine

Question: Am I simply missing a core concept somewhere for data sharing?

here I explain the outline

Answer 1

Animation nodes does not like a certain way for loops and even though its visually looking like multiple loops are in tandem, they are not. So you have to nest loops, BUT thats a SUPER mess of more nodes. So I used one loop, and then just wrote a custom script with a code loop instead to parse the parent/controller and sift for names objects and process. MUCH easier to figure out than poking at the various nodes.

g = list(controller.children)

#outText = len(g)
for i in g :
    if i.name.lower().startswith(nameFilter) :
        outText = "GREAT!"
        outObject = i
        break