Showing on front panel

How to show the three link cluster to display on the front panel wait running?
1) hours per run - to show running time
2) number of events - to show each event as it happen, like a counter
3) fan duration time - to show running time
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Hi Kwok2,
I'm having trouble understanding what you are trying to ask. Are you asking how to display outputs from a subVI on the front panel? If those are outputs (and not inputs) then you can right-click on the terminal and Create->Indicator to display the values on the front panel. Is this what you are asking?
Travis H.
National Instruments
Travis H.
LabVIEW R&D
National Instruments

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