Wish: Hard Refresh or "Recompute All"

[archinate]

Every now and then, I find myself needing to do a "hard" refresh of a definition... meaning to force all nodes to recompute. Is there a way to do this currently?

The work around always seems to be to re-wire the front of the definition or provide some toggle to make Dynamo "think" it needs to refresh.... but it would be preferable to have a "Recompute All" or "Refresh All" feature.

[mjkkirschner]

I find I need this a lot as well, if you build a debug version of Dynamo there will be a debug menu with this option.

[ikeough]

Yes, as @holyjewsus said, if you build Dynamo in debug, there's a "Force Re-execute" option. We don't want to make this available to the user yet, so we've put it in this debug menu.

@archinate Are you using this for debugging, or are you suggesting this would be a worthwhile user-facing feature?

[archinate]

User facing would be greatly preferred. All too often a problem a user is
having with a definition refreshing could be remedied with a "hard refresh"
option instead of explaining that they need to find a node, disconnect, and
reconnect it to force it to update.

Sometimes it's like getting a teenager to get out of bed at a decent hour
on a Saturday. I want the ability to give my definition a kick in the
pants from time to time.

-Nate

On Tuesday, December 9, 2014, Ian Keough notifications@github.com wrote:

Yes, as @holyjewsus https://github.com/holyjewsus said, if you build
Dynamo in debug, there's a "Force Re-execute" option. We don't want to make
this available to the user yet, so we've put it in this debug menu.

@archinate https://github.com/archinate Are you using this for
debugging, or are you suggesting this would be a worthwhile user-facing
feature?

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[andydandy74]

I wholeheartedly agree with making this available to the users. In a class room setting, the part about about disconnecting nodes always makes for strange facial expressions. And I like the teenager analogy. :-)

[ajudd11]

I agree with @archinate. Using some tools such as his Lunchbox Revit Element Collectors it would be very nice to have a way to "Recompute All" when the Revit model changes and have those changes reflected in the definition. I am sure there are many other scenarios where this would be a very useful feature as well.

[mjkkirschner]

@scottmitchell - I think you can consider this when you are thinking about the profiler UX.

[Amoursol]

This has now been implemented in the TuneUp extension, available from Dynamo 2.5 onwards. All nodes can be marked dirty and recomputed using the Force Re-execute button.