I was putting together a dry wet control, I’m in the learning stages at the moment so I’m not too familiar with all of this, and I was going to encapsulate it. I had two outlets connected to two +~ objects which connected to some *~ objects son on so forth…and then five inlets connecting to other objects. I highlighted everything and hit encapsulate. Everything but the inlets and outlets encapsulated. So it was just an encapsulated object with all the wires showing that were connecting to the inlets and outlets which were also showing.

and also, how do I get the inlets and outlets to be numbered. I’ve tried changing the name in the inspector but it doesn’t work.

I understand now. Just remove the inlets/outlets from the equation until it’s encapsulated then go in the sub patch and put the inlets/outlets in after. I got it working now thanks to your help. I appreciate it.