# Web Support

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/c/web-support/10.md?page=7

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## [Custom operation](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/custom-operation/5944)

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**Author:** [@Francesc\_Costa](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Francesc_Costa)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [December 1, 2020, 7:54am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/custom-operation/5944 "2020-12-01T07:54:49Z")

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Hello, I am using Paraview Lite to learn about this technology. What is the best way to add custom commands for unsupported files? Let me explain it better. Imagine I have a file from which I know how to generate an ob…

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## [Link server side camera to local problems](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/link-server-side-camera-to-local-problems/5923)

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**Author:** [@Francesc\_Costa](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Francesc_Costa)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [November 29, 2020, 1:09pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/link-server-side-camera-to-local-problems/5923 "2020-11-29T13:09:01Z")

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Hello, I am building an angular app. I am learning about it and using Paraview Lite as a reference. I am building it in Angular because I have more experience in Angular than in Vue. I reach a point which most of it s…

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## [Python Scripting Paraview parameters on paraview web](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/python-scripting-paraview-parameters-on-paraview-web/5823)

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**Author:** [@indrajit](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/indrajit)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [November 19, 2020, 6:49am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/python-scripting-paraview-parameters-on-paraview-web/5823 "2020-11-19T06:49:12Z")

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Hello, I am trying to figure out how to best use ParaView on a Linux guest running on a VirtualBox VM to render some MR Angio flow paths. Background: On a Linux system running directly on the metal, a Python script use…

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## [Visualizer Docker - Issue running EGL Demo on EC2](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/visualizer-docker-issue-running-egl-demo-on-ec2/5615)

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**Author:** [@SanderDiabatix](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/SanderDiabatix)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [October 22, 2020, 12:01pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/visualizer-docker-issue-running-egl-demo-on-ec2/5615 "2020-10-22T12:01:54Z")

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Hey, I am following the tutorial at https://kitware.github.io/paraviewweb/docs/docker.html step-by-step, managing to browse to the demo page. But when selecting the Visualizer application, I am greeted with “Server disc…

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## [Paraview Glance - Only checked files will be loaded error](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-glance-only-checked-files-will-be-loaded-error/5514)

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**Author:** [@BrunoP](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/BrunoP)\
**Replies:** 9\
**Last updated:** [October 8, 2020, 8:22pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-glance-only-checked-files-will-be-loaded-error/5514 "2020-10-08T20:22:41Z")

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Hello everyone, I have two problems that I am trying to solve, and would appreciate your help. I managed to customise PV glance and everything works fine in development mode. But when I generate production build an…

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## [Importing .vti image data into ParaView Glance Issue](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/importing-vti-image-data-into-paraview-glance-issue/5280)

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**Author:** [@iainf](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/iainf)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [September 14, 2020, 7:33am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/importing-vti-image-data-into-paraview-glance-issue/5280 "2020-09-14T07:33:20Z")

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Hey guys, I produce a simple VTK image dataset (“model.vti” - xml, not binary) with a single data array called “values”. I can easily drag and drop into ParaView desktop and visualise the “values”, as shown below: Ev…

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## [Help with building Paraview Glance](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/help-with-building-paraview-glance/5186)

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**Author:** [@Ramu](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Ramu)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [August 26, 2020, 2:19pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/help-with-building-paraview-glance/5186 "2020-08-26T14:19:45Z")

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Hello I am trying to build paraview-glance from Kitware/ paraview-glance GitHub repo. It was successful on my personal laptop but unable to do so in my office machine. (I use enterprise registry and they prevent download…

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## [Logging or Simple Telemetry in VTK](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/logging-or-simple-telemetry-in-vtk/4964)

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**Author:** [@EnnioBolondi](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/EnnioBolondi)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [August 18, 2020, 2:43pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/logging-or-simple-telemetry-in-vtk/4964 "2020-08-18T14:43:17Z")

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Hello, I successfully followed this example which guided us into the implementation of a RemoteRenderer website. Because we would like to compare the performances of different solutions (e.g.: Paravieweb + VTK or Parav…

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## [Two new requests for ParaView Glance](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/two-new-requests-for-paraview-glance/3494)

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**Author:** [@wsherman](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/wsherman)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [August 17, 2020, 2:35pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/two-new-requests-for-paraview-glance/3494 "2020-08-17T14:35:58Z")

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Hey all, After my positive experience with Glance on my recent project, and all the help from the discourse forum, I thought I might make a couple more requests that I think will make Glance better. Would it be possi…

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## [How could I get the coordinates of the center of a domain cell?](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-could-i-get-the-coordinates-of-the-center-of-a-domain-cell/5060)

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**Author:** [@Victor](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Victor)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [August 9, 2020, 8:51am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-could-i-get-the-coordinates-of-the-center-of-a-domain-cell/5060 "2020-08-09T08:51:06Z")

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Hi, As I wrote in the title, how could I get the coordinates of the center of a cell? I am attaching an image to make clear my question (I am looking for the coordinates of the red dots) Thank you, Victor

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## [Macro in PVW](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/macro-in-pvw/4749)

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**Author:** [@emmanuel\_madarassou1](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/emmanuel_madarassou1)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [July 3, 2020, 6:08pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/macro-in-pvw/4749 "2020-07-03T18:08:03Z")

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Hi everyone, I would like to know if there is a way to trigger paraview macro in paraviewweb to automate process in server side rendering ?

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## [Shifting camera position in paraviewweb](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/shifting-camera-position-in-paraviewweb/4740)

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**Author:** [@Yasushi\_Saito](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Yasushi_Saito)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [July 2, 2020, 4:29pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/shifting-camera-position-in-paraviewweb/4740 "2020-07-02T16:29:02Z")

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Hi, I’m trying to set up a mouse interaction handler along the line of: In non-web Paraview, I can shift the camera position laterally by Shift + Right button + dragging. But I can’t find this operation in PV remote …

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## [ParaViewWeb client-side rendering](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraviewweb-client-side-rendering/4715)

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**Author:** [@esa](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/esa)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [July 1, 2020, 7:38am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraviewweb-client-side-rendering/4715 "2020-07-01T07:38:46Z")

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Hi, I’m using paraviewweb in GeometryDelivery mode (ParaViewWebLocalRendering protocol). I want rendering to happen only on the client side. How can I avoid rendering on the server-side? I’m assuming that simple.Show() …

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## [LightViz launching not working](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/lightviz-launching-not-working/4624)

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**Author:** [@emmanuel\_madarassou1](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/emmanuel_madarassou1)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [June 19, 2020, 7:33pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/lightviz-launching-not-working/4624 "2020-06-19T19:33:19Z")

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Hi everyone I’m having trouble making the PVW LightViz application working. Can someone help me with this error please ? Do I need to copy some vtk files ? I tried to npm install but it didn’t fix it.

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## [ParaViewWeb setup](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraviewweb-setup/4554)

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**Author:** [@emmanuel\_madarassou1](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/emmanuel_madarassou1)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [June 15, 2020, 12:30pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraviewweb-setup/4554 "2020-06-15T12:30:18Z")

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Hi Everyone I’m trying to setup paraview web according to this doc but when I try to implement the composite example I’ve got this issue during the build: Can anyone light me about what I’m doing wrong ? Thanks a lot…

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## [ParaView Glance web app down?](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-glance-web-app-down/4199)

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**Author:** [@razoumov](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/razoumov)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [April 28, 2020, 2:23pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-glance-web-app-down/4199 "2020-04-28T14:23:36Z")

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Hello! ParaView Glance web app https://kitware.github.io/paraview-glance/app seems to be down now? Currently, it loads an empty page … Thank you.

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## [Migrating from RemoteRenderer to VtkRenderer.](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/migrating-from-remoterenderer-to-vtkrenderer/4179)

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**Author:** [@arosser](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/arosser)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [April 27, 2020, 5:03pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/migrating-from-remoterenderer-to-vtkrenderer/4179 "2020-04-27T17:03:16Z")

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Hello, I currently have a working server & client using RemoteRenderer & predefined protocols ParaViewWebMouseHandler, ParaViewWebViewPort and ParaViewWebViewPortImageDelivery. I now need the server to be able to push u…

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## [paraview.simple vs vtk when writing web backend](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-simple-vs-vtk-when-writing-web-backend/4082)

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**Author:** [@Yasushi\_Saito](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Yasushi_Saito)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [April 16, 2020, 8:54am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-simple-vs-vtk-when-writing-web-backend/4082 "2020-04-16T08:54:52Z")

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Hi, I’m trying to teach myself combining paraview server + browser frontend. I’m following the example in and I don’t understand what paraview.simple provides over raw vtk methods. I see that simple functions are ind…

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## [ModuleNotFoundError in ParaviewLite](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/modulenotfounderror-in-paraviewlite/4069)

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**Author:** [@shiftww](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/shiftww)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [April 15, 2020, 6:19am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/modulenotfounderror-in-paraviewlite/4069 "2020-04-15T06:19:53Z")

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Dear, Developers: I have run the pvw-list.py of the paraview-5.8 for a simple test, but it returned the following error to me: Traceback (most recent call last): File “D:\\ParaView-5.8.0-MPI\\share\\paraview-5.8\\web\\lite…

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## [Open .pvd file](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/open-pvd-file/4046)

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**Author:** [@Maria\_Perez](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Maria_Perez)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [April 14, 2020, 3:14am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/open-pvd-file/4046 "2020-04-14T03:14:49Z")

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Hi, Im using for the first time Paraview, I did some simulations and I would like to open in Paraview. I have a .pvd file (animation.pvd) and a set of .vtu files. When I try to run the .pvd file I have the next errors: …

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## [Visualizer and Python based Paraview plugins](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/visualizer-and-python-based-paraview-plugins/4018)

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**Author:** [@azure](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/azure)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [April 10, 2020, 1:07pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/visualizer-and-python-based-paraview-plugins/4018 "2020-04-10T13:07:31Z")

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Hello All, I’ve created a Python based plugin (which include a number of new sources and filters) that I routinely use in Paraview (5.7.0, Python 3) successfully. Recently I’ve attempted to integrate and use these thro…

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## [Many Machines PVW launching on Windows10?](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/many-machines-pvw-launching-on-windows10/4013)

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**Author:** [@shiftww](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/shiftww)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [April 9, 2020, 4:40pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/many-machines-pvw-launching-on-windows10/4013 "2020-04-09T16:40:57Z")

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Hello，developers: I hava a question about the link below: From the information from above link, I get we can use a special python launcher config method to run PVW within a many machines architecture. I have read th…

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## [Time Series in PV Glance](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/time-series-in-pv-glance/3219)

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**Author:** [@tristan-salles](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/tristan-salles)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [April 1, 2020, 2:04am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/time-series-in-pv-glance/3219 "2020-04-01T02:04:50Z")

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Hi there and thanks for the awesome suite of software that you’ve been developing over the years! I was wondering if there was a way of embedding time series as .vtkjs or .glance files to visualise them in Paraview Glan…

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## [Click-and-Drag Translation with VTKRenderer and Server-side Rendering](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/click-and-drag-translation-with-vtkrenderer-and-server-side-rendering/2740)

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**Author:** [@mayfielg](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mayfielg)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [March 27, 2020, 9:30pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/click-and-drag-translation-with-vtkrenderer-and-server-side-rendering/2740 "2020-03-27T21:30:39Z")

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Hello, We are working on building a web-based viewer using the Paraview server with server-side rendering (VTKRenderer, simple, wslink) and we have loaded both PNGs series data and OBJs. We’re looking to implement objec…

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## [Docker: Endpoint configuration issue?](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/docker-endpoint-configuration-issue/3878)

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**Author:** [@skoudoro](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/skoudoro)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [March 24, 2020, 11:57pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/docker-endpoint-configuration-issue/3878 "2020-03-24T23:57:25Z")

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Hello Paraviewweb Team, I am trying to set up a Paraviewweb server with custom apps using docker container. After following this tutorial http://kitware.github.io/paraviewweb/docs/container\_overview.html, I succeed to …

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## [How to build paraview to support paraview web?](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-build-paraview-to-support-paraview-web/3825)

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**Author:** [@sharon](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/sharon)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [March 17, 2020, 9:19am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-build-paraview-to-support-paraview-web/3825 "2020-03-17T09:19:37Z")

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Dear Experts, I am trying paraview web, but don’t know how to build paraview to support web. Current what i know is need turn on “PARAVIEW\_ENABLE\_WEB=ON”, My questions: What other things need to do to build paraview…

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## [How to read the tecplot Binary file file](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-read-the-tecplot-binary-file-file/3538)

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**Author:** [@hao\_hu](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/hao_hu)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [February 11, 2020, 12:26pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-read-the-tecplot-binary-file-file/3538 "2020-02-11T12:26:03Z")

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I want to use VTK to read the .plt data , but he told me that the encoding is wrong. After querying VTKTecopltReader, I can only read the ascii encoded .plt file, but my .plt file is a binary file. What can I d…

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## [Render VTU and VTK files in Jupyter Notebooks](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/render-vtu-and-vtk-files-in-jupyter-notebooks/2775)

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**Author:** [@Sirius\_Fuenmayor](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Sirius_Fuenmayor)\
**Replies:** 11\
**Last updated:** [February 7, 2020, 8:43am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/render-vtu-and-vtk-files-in-jupyter-notebooks/2775 "2020-02-07T08:43:10Z")

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Hello, there is a way to render VTU/VTK files on a Jupyter notebook? Or a command to take screenshots of this VTU-VTK files? Support in Google Colaboratory will be great

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## [Error Paraview Web WebPack](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/error-paraview-web-webpack/3515)

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**Author:** [@Herman\_Maraden](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Herman_Maraden)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [February 6, 2020, 9:03am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/error-paraview-web-webpack/3515 "2020-02-06T09:03:18Z")

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I tried to follow instructions in ParaView Web documentations which in here : But after tried to build the web app I get the following error messages : 0 info it worked if it ends with ok 1 verbose cli \[ ‘/home/tjg…

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## [Trouble with embedded ParaView Glance](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/trouble-with-embedded-paraview-glance/3446)

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**Author:** [@wsherman](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/wsherman)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [January 31, 2020, 5:02pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/trouble-with-embedded-paraview-glance/3446 "2020-01-31T17:02:29Z")

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Hello all, As I work to put a ParaView scene into an HTML page, I’ve encountered another issue, which is that when I use the advanced option to embed a Glance/vtkjs export into a ParaView Glance base HTML, I’m not getti…

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