Required or recommended connection could be linked to control rather than connector pane

[cowen71]

When I have a VI with several inputs and outputs on the connector pane, I occasionally have to re-organise the connector pane to follow a standard or even just to simplify the block diagram appearance. When this is needed, I have to reset the required status of the controls in their new position.

The idea is to allow a control to have its connection type defined, rather than the connector pane.

This gives the following benefits:

1. If a control is set as 'Required' but does not appear in the connector pane, we can get an error.
2. If we move a control in the connector pane, the required setting moves with it.
3. Copying a control from one VI to another could take this property with it.
4. The context help could potentially show if the connector is required/recommended or optional,

The connector would perhaps need 4 type setting: required, recommended, optional, connector pane.

The final setting means that the value from the connector pane is adopted.

Setting any other value, overides the connector pane setting.

[crossrulz]

Do you not know about swapping on the Connector Pane?  If you hold down Ctrl, you can just swap two items on the Connector Pane.  All of the settings stay with the control.

Oh, and you should have the setting to have the controls be Required by default.  It is somewhere in the options (too lazy right now to go digging).

[cowen71]

Hmm, no I didn't know about the swapping. I give that a try tomorrow. Cheers.

If this works like you say, then I retract my suggestion. 🙂

[JÞB]

It works out as he says 

[Darren]

 Functionality provided by the conpane switcheroo tool (i.e. Ctrl-clicking terminals in the conpane to switch their positions)