No real shortcut until apex is released. For now build it once then from then on you can merge the pages into your future projects so you don't need to build them again. Rti until apex had the school of thought that their software is truly open architecture. So they shouldn't decide what commands are or aren't used from a DVD player or receiver. That's up to you. Or for a receiver as an example you don't even need the page of controls. Just put the commands you need into the macros has once a receiver is setup the client shouldn't need to mess with it. The activity macros should turn it on and set things like inputs and surround modes for the user automatically