# Gather Information from server
**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/gather-information-from-server/2211
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [July 13, 2019, 1:02pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/gather-information-from-server/2211 "2019-07-13T13:02:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@sharon](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/sharon)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2019, 1:02pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/gather-information-from-server/2211/1 "2019-07-13T13:02:49Z")
Dear Experts,
Does paraview provide the flexibility to develop my own SMproxy and my own vtkPVInformation, I want to display some information, that read from a server side, but i found it is difficult to transfer these information to client.
I found several options to do this, one of them is to create my own proxy class and PVInformation class, which seems have more flexibility for future more information display. However, I don’t want to change paraview code, How can achieve this?
Thanks in Advance!
Sharon
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2019, 8:46am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/gather-information-from-server/2211/2 "2019-07-15T08:46:52Z")
This seems overly complicated for a task that sound quite simple.
could you please explain what you are trying to do ?
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### Author:  [@sharon](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/sharon)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2019, 3:40pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/gather-information-from-server/2211/3 "2019-07-15T15:40:59Z")
Hi Mathieu,
On server side, i developed my own reader that can read some information,
What I want to do is transfer these information from server side to client side, then i can choose to display them.
Since there are many kinds of information need to display at client side, i want to find a generic way to do such kind of “data transfer”
Thank you for your reply!
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2019, 3:42pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/gather-information-from-server/2211/4 "2019-07-15T15:42:26Z")
Why do you need them on client side to display them ? It is not needed to transfer them.
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### Author:  [@sharon](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/sharon)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2019, 3:45pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/gather-information-from-server/2211/5 "2019-07-15T15:45:28Z")
They are some information need to display on GUI
These information read at server side, so i have to “transfer” them to client side, in order to display on GUI
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2019, 3:49pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/gather-information-from-server/2211/6 "2019-07-15T15:49:51Z")
information\_only properties are here for that.
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### Author:  [@sharon](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/sharon)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2019, 3:54pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/gather-information-from-server/2211/7 "2019-07-15T15:54:14Z")
Hi Mathieu,
Can you give me more details about how to use it?
This can only used in Proxy?
All the properties defined in proxy, i can get them by this proxy, what’s the function of the “information\_only”?
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2019, 3:55pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/gather-information-from-server/2211/8 "2019-07-15T15:55:46Z")
from : `Examples/Plugins/PropertyWidgets/Plugin/PropertyWidgetsFilter.xml`
```
This property's widget is standard, but it is a information_only property.
The resulting widget will be disabled and show the value of GetShrinkFactor,
once the changes have been applied.
```
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### Author:  [@sharon](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/sharon)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2019, 3:57pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/gather-information-from-server/2211/9 "2019-07-15T15:57:20Z")
Thank you Mathieu, I will have a look at this example!
Thank you for your help!