Control the order of plots

When I plot multiple waveforms, or multiple traces on an XY plot, the final plot is "underneath" the ones that came before. In LV 12.x, can I change the plot order, other than by changing the order of the elements in array used to make the plot? (Changing the array order would not be desirable in my application.) I see from previous posts on this forum that the answer was "No" for LV 6.1, and that some creative but cumbersome workarounds were proposed. Has this changed in the more recent versions of LV? Thank you.
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I don't like to contradict someone much better at LabVIEW than me (actually, I do, when I know I'm right ), but, Jeff, you're wrong here. It's easy, at least if you have a set number of plots (or less) on a graph. You don't have to do anything drastic to the basic graph indicator you pull off the palette at all.
The plotting order is set by the Active Plot number property. You can change that easily, and you can also change which data set is which Active Plot by changing the order in which the data sets are wired to the graph indicator (top - in front, bottom - in back). I've attached a simple demo of this, which is actually a stripped-down VI of one we use for our instruments, where only two plots are involved, but you could easily change it for more plots using a multiple-case structure and more wires.
(Boo, hiss, the forum software doesn't like to accept VIs again, so you'll have to replace the hyphen with a dot.)
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