How to create a cluster, whose elements are all scattered across the front panel?

Hi everyone!
I've been designing a front panel, which (I think :-)) feels pretty well when the override switches are scattered all over the screen. Anyway I'd like to process their states in a cluster. I tried pulling them in a cluster in the block diagram, which didn't do anything (actually they hid underneath the cluster). I tried bundling them, but the only way I could do so was after creating a hidden cluster on the front panel and filling it with the same number of boolean controls as I've got override switches.
Anybody got any suggestions?
Kindest regards,
Severin

Severin,
You should be able to bundle the elements without creating a dummy cluster. You cannot use Bundle by Name without a control (or indicator), however.
One possibility, if you need a cluster, is to make a cluster which is bigger than your front panel. Make the background transparent or the same color as the panel. The problem with this is how you handle other controls or indicators which are not part of the cluster. You could put them behnid the transparent cluster, but then you cannot operate the controls and panel updates are slowed considerably by overlapping front panel objects. You may be able to slide them in front of the cluster without embedding them into the cluster by placing them on the panel outside the cluster and using the keyboard arrows to move them. This works for some things; I have not tried it with clusters. You still have overlapping objects.
Lynn

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