While I can see an interest for this idea (voted !), I'm always under the impression that multi-elements features (that need a selection) are not that used, and as they all use scripting, so they basically could fall into a quick drop (I actually have already done this one - creating a cluster out of a selection on the FP or BD) which is usually more efficient than navigating into a menu.
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LabVIEW R&D is looking into adding this functionality to a future LabVIEW release. I have a question for anyone still following this thread. If you used this feature to create a cluster constant, would you expect it to work if Fixed Constants (Like 'Pi', 'End of Line', and 'Not A Path') were included in the selection, like this:
My original plan was to exclude Fixed Constants (since they can't be dragged into cluster constants), but I received feedback that perhaps users would expect the behavior shown in the diagram above. It's non-trivial work to add the Fixed Constant functionality, which is why I'm asking here...would you expect Fixed Constants to be supported by this feature, or not? Would you find it inconvenient if Fixed Constants were not supported?
a) It would be nice if those constants could live in clusters regardless this new feature.
b) If\when this is possible, I'd expect this to play nicely with this idea.
c) If it is not possible for those constants to live in clusters, I can live without the automatic clustering for those constants. At least at first, it could be an add on feature (much) later.
What about to conditionally throw an user dialog informing user that the build-in LV constants will be converted to the explicitly-defined constants of the same datatype. So the user can confirm or cancel the operation.
I think it would be really neat to have the constants get added, but I would not initially expect it. It would feel like putting a VI into a cluster. So my vote is to not add the constants but create another idea to have them added. People can then vote on that part of the feature.
If adding the constants was "trivial", I would say to just do it. But there are plenty of other features I would much rather NI spend their time on.
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Available in LabVIEW 2019 and later. Right-click on a selection of controls, indicators, or constants and select Create > Cluster from Selection.