<div dir="ltr">Livia,<div><br></div><div>It seems reasonable that you should be able to save field data stored in a vtkTable. Would you mind writing up a feature request at <a href="http://www.paraview.org/Bug/view_all_bug_page.php">http://www.paraview.org/Bug/view_all_bug_page.php</a>?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Cory</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 9:47 AM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:livia.barazzetti@istb.unibe.ch" target="_blank">livia.barazzetti@istb.unibe.ch</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Hi,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">I was using the writer from the gui in Paraview. I created a very simple programmable source (with output type vtkTable) with a column and a field data array,
then clicked File-Save Data from the menu. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">In the case of a table, the writer window doesn’t allow to specify the association field, so only the row values are exported to the csv file.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">By the way, I see that if I apply a TableToPoints filter, the field array is copied to the polydata correctly (and can be exported from there), but I haven’t
experimented with this solution further yet<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Thanks<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Livia<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b>To:</b> Barazzetti, Livia (ISTB)<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Paraview] Paraview support of FieldData in a vtkTable<u></u><u></u></span></p><div><div class="h5">
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<p class="MsoNormal">Which writer are you using that doesn't save the field data?<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 5:30 AM, <<a href="mailto:livia.barazzetti@istb.unibe.ch" target="_blank">livia.barazzetti@istb.unibe.ch</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">I am thinking to store some info as FieldData of a table (for example, the parameters used for the calculation of the data in the table - possibly they could also
be changing depending on other elements of the pipeline). I tried a toy example in Python and it seems that vtkTable supports it (I am able to add an array and read it back). In Paraview 4.3.1, visualizing the field data from a python annotation works, but
if I open the spreadsheet view to see the field data I get <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Courier;color:black">Warning: In C:\DBD\pvs-x64\paraview\src\paraview\ParaViewCore\VTKExtensions\Rendering\vtkMarkSelectedRows.cxx, line 209</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Courier;color:black">vtkMarkSelectedRows (0000000010381890): FieldAssociation type not supported yet. Selected elements may not be shown correctly.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">, also the writer doen't export the field data. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">Should I go forward in using the FieldData of a table (just remembering that before exporting I should use a Python annotation or a programmable filter to read
the field data) or it is actually not supported by paraview and I should avoid it? (for example, the field data would not be updated as the rest of the pipeline, or something like that)?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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