Setting and saving values on Dashboard

[fovea1959]

we're doing vision on our DS, and we're going to need to save all the vision parameters when we get to the venue and do calibration, then load them when we load the DS before a match.

I'm thinking about the best way in LV to pick up the initial values of a lot of controls on the DS (and some subVis). I saw this article Remembering Control Values, and am also aware of the ability to put the control values into a cluster and use cluster-to-XML and XML-to-cluster to save and load.

If I do XML cluster save and load, it looks like load would have to (for each saved value) get the value from the bundle, explicitly get the appropriate control refererence, and set the value). Do I have this right, or is there an easier way to load?

Making the cluster and saving the values looks simpler, just bundle up the values and write them.

Am I barking up the right trees, or is there an easier way to do what we need? We will *not* be running the development environment on the field for calibration, so saving current values as default is not an option.