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Promoting Parameters

When you publish a digital asset, you must promote any parameters that you want to be able to work with because all other parameters get locked down once the asset is in the pipeline. After being promoted, these parameters are displayed under the Controls tab in the Parameter pane unless you choose to make them invisible.

The Creating an Object-Level Asset lesson introduced you to some ways of promoting parameters. Below are some other methods can be used to streamline the process of promoting one or more parameters at a time.


Click-drag from Parameter pane

You can promote a parameter by dragging it from the Parameter pane to the Parameter list found under the Parameters tab in the Type Properties window. If the Parameter is a vector then you can drag the name or to get only one of the parameters, double-click on the parameter field then drag it over after it is highlighted in a box.


Click-drag from Network pane

To get all of the parameters associated with an operation, you can drag the tile from the Network pane onto the Parameter list. If you drag a nested digital asset to the parameter pane then the folders used to organize the parameters on the nested asset will be promoted intact. If you don't need all of the resulting parameters then you can delete the extras using the red x on the right side of the listing.


Promote from Handles

The handles used to interactively set up an operator are associated with a subset of parameters belonging to that operator. RMB-click on a handle and select Export Parameters to Type Properties to promote these parameters. If you choose the second option which lets you Export the Handle then the parameters will go with it.

This will only work if the Type Properties window is open.


Promote from Drag Parameters List

There are some parameters in the parameter Pane that don't permit a click-drag action. To promote these parameters, you can press the plus sign [+] at the top of the parameter list in the Type Properties window then, from the resulting tree view, select and drag any parameter. This method is also good for promoting more hidden parameters such as an operator's selectability.