Making an array of different user events refnums?

Hello all,
I have a question about dynamic user events. I have 6 different users events which I create, and would like to put into an array. (Such that I can use them in a For loop laters, taking off one event per loop and assigning it to a control of a vi) So far I haven't found a way of doing that since if I just wire the user events refnums to an array I get broken wires. (Similarly if I wire them to a build cluster structure.)
I think that you'll understand what I am trying to do if you look at my labview code in the attached vi.
In the vi I create some user events, and then wire them to the control of two vi's which will communicate to each other using these events. In the code you will see 6 Invoke Node structures where I use the "Ctrl Val.set" to pass the events to the two vi's. Obviously this is the wrong why of doing things. Since if instead of having 6 events I had 100, then I would need to put 100 Invoke Node structures on the block diagram (making it very large compared to the size of my computer screen!).
So what I would like to do, is put the user events refnums into a array, then put the one Invoke node structure into a For loop, and index the array to assign the events to the vi's programmatically.
Is there anyway of doing this? Or is there an alternative (/ better way) to what I have done?
(Baisically I have 2 vi's that run in parallel and communicate to each other using user events. I need to pass the events to both vi's, how do I do it in the minimum of mouse clicks, and minimum of screen space.)
Thank you!
Paul.
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