Output ports Rename - Metanodes

[eamendola]

Hello everyone.

I am posting this as a follow up of a couple of ideas that I’ve been seeing in the forum.

Knime 4.1 Rename Input and Output ports of a component

Hello!, In Knime 3.x when i create a Wrapped Metanode, there is a “Description” section on ComponentInput and ComponentOutput nodes where i can rename the ports. Where is this configuration on Knime 4.1? My old workflows still works and the ports are properly named after I migrate to 4.1 but I don’t know how to rename the ports of new Components or Metanodes.

The ability to rename the input/output ports of Metanodes. We have that option for Components by opening the Component, then View → Description and then on the editing Pencil at the top right corner.

Unfortunately, for Metanodes we do not have that option. There is also a very old post for this that didn’t get attention.

Meta node port renaming

Hello Knime community I am a KNIME novice and may be my questions have been already resolved in another post. I create a meta node with 3 input ports and 2 output ports and I would like to know if it is possible to rename the input/output names. For example rename in_0(data) to objectName (Data). The meta node that I created returned two filtered tables and I would like to know if it is also possible two modify the name displayed in the node menu (right click) Regards Joel   [image]

When you open the Description of the Metanode it just opens the root workflow Description. It would be very helpful to have that option for situations like this:

There should be a quick way to differentiate the various similar node outputs.

This is my idea. Double click on the grey output bar inside the Metanode and open a renaming dialog similar to the Column Rename. This is just a Paint-made depiction of what I imagine.

@iCFO Also mentioned something similar in a resent post the need of an approach to rename outputs. Not only Components or Metanodes, but also nodes.

Keyboard Shortcut fixes for out-port views

Having the Node Monitor window open dramatically slows the speed of work and navigation due to the delay in populating data before it allows you to perform the next task. With assignable keyboard shortcuts for more output views it would offer us instant access to data output of nodes so that we could forgo the use of the Node Monitor altogether and speed up our work. Also, a simple change to the right click menu would allow us to bypass this issue via macro easily and access any number of outpu…

[ArjenEX]

You will have my vote for this!

[iCFO]

You combine that with the platform standardization output #s before descriptions and you have a winner!