Reading Port Object into Cell

[Gavin_Attard]

HI Folks

So i have a port object column which i got from a model to cell node.
when i view the output table i see the data i want.
when i connect the output to a string manipulation or other type of node, i can’t access the data in the port object to further manipulate it.

I tried to use the community Port to File Cells node, however this is expecting a URI port only.

More specifically, the incomign port object is a DBSessionPortObjectSpec

Any ideas?

[AnotherFraudUser]

Hi @Gavin_Attard,

i had a similar issue with the interactive filter node.

Can the filter definition from interactive filters be extracted

Hi @AnotherFraudUser, You can export the definition using the Model Writer node and use it later in Filter Apply node or any other nodes with a filter definition input port. If you want to have the filtered values, just use the Filter Apply node after the Interactive Value Filter Widget node in the component and connect both definition and data ports then use a Groupby node to group your value column. That’s it. 23612-1-1.knwf (18.7 KB)

The only possibility there to get the (exact) infornation for further processing was the Port Writer, and extracting the info from the written file
->I hope the port to cell node will be enhanced to include all the info in the future

[Gavin_Attard]

Thanks for the pointer.

Gave it a go, but in this case didn’t resolve my challenge.

tbh, i’ve been trying to find a quick workaround to the core problem, but don’t think i’m getting anywhere.
I’ll post the root issue in a separate thread