Parent a Node in Nodes Panel

The parenting feature enables you to create a hierarchy of nodes that can be moved and even cloned together.

Only nodes with NodeBaseMovable (such as item type nodes and the Layer3D node) can be used for parenting.

Guidelines about parenting

• Multiple nodes can share the same parent.

• The hierarchy can have more than one level. A child node can be the parent for another node.

• The parent node appears in the node table, so that is easy to search and group nodes by parent information.

• You should always set useLocalMatrix to True for nodes where for child nodes are not implicitly active (such as ItemTrendPopup). Otherwise, you cannot move the children together with their parent.

Choose a parent from Node properties

1. In the Nodes panel, select the child node.

   

2. In the Property panel, select the parent field and select Browse (…) to open a selection dialog.

   

3. On the Select a Node of type dialog, select the parent node from the node selection list.

   

4. Click OK.

Alternatively, you can directly insert the parent name or use copy and paste tool.