# How to calculate normalized value of Element?

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-calculate-normalized-value-of-element/9090
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [February 28, 2022, 9:47pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-calculate-normalized-value-of-element/9090 "2022-02-28T21:47:30Z")
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### Author: ![Hokon\_Kim](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/hokon_kim/32/4396_2.png) [@Hokon\_Kim](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Hokon_Kim)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2022, 9:47pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-calculate-normalized-value-of-element/9090/1 "2022-02-28T21:47:30Z")

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Hello!

I would like to compute the normalized value of Element in Paraview.

For example, here is the screenshot of my work.

 ![image](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/default/original/2X/7/7691ea8eac1edd1574612c95d8558e4e65921abc.jpeg)

At each time step, tpbActivity\_S0(element value) is different.

But I would like to get normalized version (especially, divided by a specific single value).

How can I get this?

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### Author: ![nicolas.vuaille](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/nicolas.vuaille/32/5873_2.png) [@nicolas.vuaille](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/nicolas.vuaille)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2022, 8:18am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-calculate-normalized-value-of-element/9090/2 "2022-03-01T08:18:01Z")

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Use the `Calculator` filter for simple operation, like dividing by one known value

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### Author: ![Hokon\_Kim](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/hokon_kim/32/4396_2.png) [@Hokon\_Kim](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Hokon_Kim)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2022, 7:05pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-calculate-normalized-value-of-element/9090/3 "2022-03-01T19:05:15Z")

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![image](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/default/original/2X/6/6b50514db42659fb1be97b2a138e80703030a0f8.jpeg)

I already tried… but I got the error like this.

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### Author: ![nicolas.vuaille](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/nicolas.vuaille/32/5873_2.png) [@nicolas.vuaille](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/nicolas.vuaille)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2022, 8:32am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-calculate-normalized-value-of-element/9090/4 "2022-03-02T08:32:05Z")

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Did you select `CellData` for attribute type ? If yes can you share some data ?

Also note that copy / paste error message is better than a screenshot : easier to read, easier to copy/paste for reader and easier to find this topic by searching similar error (for the future) .