Summary, Tips, and Tricks on Clusters 1.2 2004/06/21 14:10:44 GMT-5 2007/07/19 10:31:34.457 GMT-5 National Instruments certification@ni.com National Instruments certification@ni.com Elizabeth Gregory elizabeth.gregory@gmail.com Malan Shiralkar mshiralkar05@hotmail.com Harika Basana ilsai@rice.edu clusters LabVIEW National Instruments summary tips tricks Clusters group data elements of mixed types. A cluster cannot contain a mixture of controls and indicators. If a front panel contains more than 28 controls and indicators that you want to use programmatically, group some of them into a cluster and assign the cluster to a terminal on the connector pane to eliminate clutter on the block diagram. To create a cluster control or indicator, select a cluster on the Functions>>All Functions>>Array & Cluster palette, place it on the front panel, and drag controls or indicators into the cluster shell. Use the Cluster functions located on the Functions>>All Functions>>Cluster palette to create and manipulate clusters. Error checking tells you why and where errors occur. The error cluster reports the status, code, and source of the error. Use the error cluster controls and indicators to create error inputs and outputs in subVIs.