[Paraview-developers] Is there a "no view" hint for filters?

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

Cornelis.

Jakub just contributed support for this here:
https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/merge_requests/1562

It's been merged in `master` and will be available in 5.4-RC2.

Utkarsh

On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 5:25 AM, Cornelis Bockemühl
<cornelis.bockemuehl at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Writing a filter with 3 output ports, I would like to achieve a behaviour
> that only the first of the ports will show in some 3D render view by
> default. The second and third are actually table data which the user may
> want to see or not.
>
> With this it makes sense to have them still as output port, but without a
> default representation. The user may then open a spreadsheet view and choose
> among the output ports he wants to see in numeric form.
>
> I know that in ther server manager xml you can put "hints" for
> "Representation" or "RepresentationType", e.g.
>
>    <RepresentationType view="RenderView" type="Surface With Edges"/>
>
> What I would like to use would be something like this:
>
>    <Representation view="none" />
>
> Is there such a thing available? I was trying and searching the source code,
> but did not find an indication.
>
> Regards, Cornelis
>
> --
> Cornelis Bockemühl
> Basel, Schweiz
>
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