I am working on an HDA where I have a stash in the HDA, its exposed and I have set the stash to "editable"

my issue is that in development when I save the HDA it also saves the contents of the stash to the HDA, which balloons the size of the HDA and gives bad feedback to the end user. how can I clear the stash when I save the HDA?

asmischney
, its exposed and I have set the stash to "editable"

Don't make the node editable

Only promote the stash dataparm (or also the buttons if you are using those unless you have custom ones) and as long as it's default value is empty it should always save into definition as empty

tamte

asmischney
, its exposed and I have set the stash to "editable"

Don't make the node editable

Only promote the stash dataparm (or also the buttons if you are using those unless you have custom ones) and as long as it's default value is empty it should always save into definition as empty

Im not sure i follow, if i dont make the stash node editable i would get errors when the hda was locked and someone tried to use it

tamte

asmischney
, its exposed and I have set the stash to "editable"

Don't make the node editable

Only promote the stash dataparm (or also the buttons if you are using those unless you have custom ones) and as long as it's default value is empty it should always save into definition as empty

If i dont set the stash as editable i get this

asmischney
If i dont set the stash as editable i get this

As I said, promote the stash data parm to your HDA

tamte

asmischney
If i dont set the stash as editable i get this

As I said, promote the stash data parm to your HDA

Ok, i get it now!

this is not just a label, which it looks like, its the geometry itself.
to anyone else showing up asking the same question, drag this into your HDA params. it can be set as hidden

thanks!