# How to get vtkAlgorithmOutput from vtkSMSourceProxy?

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-get-vtkalgorithmoutput-from-vtksmsourceproxy/14293
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**Created:** [March 29, 2024, 6:26am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-get-vtkalgorithmoutput-from-vtksmsourceproxy/14293 "2024-03-29T06:26:37Z")
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### Author: ![joint](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/dc4da7/32.png) [@joint](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/joint)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2024, 6:26am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-get-vtkalgorithmoutput-from-vtksmsourceproxy/14293/1 "2024-03-29T06:26:37Z")

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Hello dear paraview developers!

Could you explain me please, how to get vtkAlgorithmOutput from vtkSMSourceProxy?

I want to create the filter in the runtime and to set its input connection, but I dont see a way to do it

Best regards

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### Author: ![mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/mwestphal/32/17_2.png) [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2024, 12:21pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-get-vtkalgorithmoutput-from-vtksmsourceproxy/14293/2 "2024-03-29T12:21:01Z")

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> [@joint](#):
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> how to get vtkAlgorithmOutput from vtkSMSourceProxy?

You should avoid doing that, but it is possible when in builtin.

> I want to create the filter in the runtime and to set its input connection, but I dont see a way to do it

Just set the Input property of the SMProxy.