Use of property nodes together with embedded remote panels

Hello,
In the LV RT 6.1 release notes is a point under 'known issues'
You can programatically change the properties of front panel controls
and indicators in LabVIEW by using Property Nodes on a block
diagram. Similarly, when you target, or connect, LabVIEW RT to the
RT Engine on an RT Series device, Property Nodes affect the front
panel of the RT Development System on the host computer. However,
if you disconnect the RTDevelopment System from the RT Engine and
subsequently reconnect it, you must reset the properties for them to
take effect on the reopened front panel. The same applies to embedded
remote panels.
I did not found the same in the LV RT 7.1 release notes. Does this still apply to 7.1?
My problem is that everything done using property nodes behaves strange. For example setting scale offsets, multipliers, maximum and minimum is working well if the front panel is displayed in the web browser during the call to the property node. If the web page containing the front panel is reloaded the scalles get messed up.
Also clearing the history of a chart seems not to work.
Is there a workaround for this. Reseting properties as mentioned in the 6.1 release notes does not work with embedded remote panels since there seems to be no way to detect remote connections in labview.
Regards, Beat

For your reference.
I have been doing this since then
Ian F
Since LabVIEW 5.1... 7.1.1... 2009, 2010
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