How do you save channel intensities?

so you patched channel 257 as the correct fixture type? you set all the lights and record as a cue, or as sub, or as preset, or as intensity palette. there are lots of different ways to record values, macro is the most complicated one as it's not intended to do that.
what do you mean with "old configuration"? another showfiles?

It sounds like you are new to this board. I would sugest that you watch the Youtube videos to learn how the basics are done and even sign up for the online course ($15usd) to learn the basics. It helped me lots to learn the basics and then I continue to play and learn asking questions as I go. you will need to save a show file with the values recorded to cues or pallets. Then you can reload the show file and get the settings you recorded. I think by default the last file you were working loads automatically.

Its a little hard to know what you are doing, but a simple way of saving a look is get everything as you want it and then select all the chanels that you want in the look (maybe all of them) and the enter record preset 1.

The to get back to the look select all chanels and select the preset. ie 1 thru 100 preset 1

Remember to save you show file when you have done this, then when you load it again you can recall that look.

I doubt you need to use marcos for the level you are using the desk at, but you could record a macro that was just 1 thru 100 preset 1

Your question went a little strange at the end when you said "If I reload an old configuration on my Ion it loses all those setting" as the show file is what holds the settings for the show, soyou would want it to do that. You can use merge to merge things in if that's what you want to do instead.

Thank you @ueliriegg, thats exactly what I need to know. I wasn't sure if the macro was the way I needed to go or if there was an easier way to get what I am trying do. And Yes when i meant old configurations I mean show files. Sorry I am still learning the ion console terms. @Mike A Sorry i didn't mean all the setting. The settings I mean are the intensity and color(lights using LED RGBW).

If you only want to record the colour and intensity in the preset you can do that by going

1 thru 100 color record preset 1
and then
1 thru 100 intensity record preset 1

That will just record those attributes in the preset excluding the focus ie position of the moving lights.

There are lots of other ways you can be selective about what gets recorded as well but trying to keep it simple. eg recordonly will only record manual values ie if youve set that chanel attribute specifically so maybe more what you are after.

So if I wanted to record a preset using two different channels that have different values for color levels how would i do that. @Mike A, Based on the example you provided, I can I can set multiple channels with the same settings, but how do I do this for multiple channels that have different vales. Do I need to have a preset for each channel or can I group them into one preset. For instance:

I have this
Channel 257 where I need R=50 G=50 B=50 W=0 and
Channel 260 where i need R=60 G=35 B=15 and W=60.

Channel 257 + 260 Intensity Color Record Preset 1 Enter

I now understand what you have not realized

A preset stores the values for each channel separately by default.

For future info You can tell presets and pallets to store by type which you tend to do for color pallets but even then you can have individual channels overiden

So you can probably just use my first answer