[Greg McKaskle]

I'll let someone actually on a team post code they claim to work.

To achieve the light, put an SD write of a Boolean on your robot and update it with the value of the limit switch. On the dashboard, place the LEDs in the Operations tab and name it the same as the variable name.

If you create a LV dashboard and want it to launch, goto the setup tab and choose the LV dashboard. This should default to the location that the custom dashboard defaults to.

The custom message you are talking about sounds like a User Message. To write to that, use the Driver Station palette >> LCDWriteUserMessage.

Greg McKaskle