# Labels in RenderView

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/labels-in-renderview/16036
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [January 24, 2025, 7:07am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/labels-in-renderview/16036 "2025-01-24T07:07:20Z")
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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: [January 30, 2025, 8:05am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/labels-in-renderview/16036/3 "2025-01-30T08:05:25Z")

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No, I want to have

> [@Annotate block name in RenderView](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/annotate-block-name-in-renderview/15626):
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> Hi, I have the following use case: I have an OpenFOAM case, which I am reading through the native Paraview reader that treats it as a multiblock dataset. Is there a way to show in the RenderView some kind of ‘tooltip’ that shows the name of each block, e.g. when I select it in the Multiblock Inspector? I know that the OpenFOAM plugin adds this functionality, but I don’t find a lot of sense in recompiling all of Paraview just for that. Moreover, this could be interesting to apply to multiblock d…

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