Displaying child clusters in a tab control

I have a data structure comprising of 2 clusters, each cluster has 4 sub clusters. I also have 2 tab controls, one for each parent cluster. I want to display the contents of each sub cluster on its own tab page.
My thoughts so far have gone towards placing a cluster in each tab page and copying or linking each sub cluster into them, but this seems very inefficient. If anybody has a suggestion on how best to approach this, I would appreciate it.
Ed
- Cheers, Ed

I believe I want something like this. My sub clusters are displayed on their own tabs, and in the block diagram they have been made members of the parent clusters for ease of sending them to sub VIs.
The updating of the display clusters seems slightly long winded, and given this application is going to be fairly large I'm sure there must be a better way of implementing this. If anybody has some ideas or suggestions I would be grateful.
cheers, Ed
- Cheers, Ed
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clusters.vi ‏31 KB

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