# Looking for a point (or cell) labelling filter

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/looking-for-a-point-or-cell-labelling-filter/1137
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [January 14, 2019, 4:23pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/looking-for-a-point-or-cell-labelling-filter/1137 "2019-01-14T16:23:39Z")
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### Author: ![cobo](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/f17d59/32.png) [@cobo](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/cobo)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2019, 4:23pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/looking-for-a-point-or-cell-labelling-filter/1137/1 "2019-01-14T16:23:39Z")

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I have a CSV table with X,Y,Z coordinates, plus a label column, plus other data. I can read this into a “spreadsheet view”, then apply the “Table to Points” filter with “include all data” and get a number of points in space with attributes, including a label attribute.

I can go one step further and use the “Find Data” tool and have the label be displayed for all selected points.

So far so good.

But my question is: Is there also a filter that I can apply to my “attributed point cloud” and have the labels displayed _without_ selecting the points?

In a way I almost expect that there “should” be one, but I don’t find it. Or maybe I am approaching the problem from the wrong side!?

Thanks for any helpful hint!

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### Author: ![wascott](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/8e8cbc/32.png) [@wascott](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/wascott)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2019, 5:42pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/looking-for-a-point-or-cell-labelling-filter/1137/2 "2019-01-14T17:42:48Z")

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Good catch, you found one of our feature holes. This has been discussed, and a feature request has been entered with Kitware. The relevant bug/features are here.

[https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/issues/18654](https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/issues/18654)

Related is: [https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/issues/18653](https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/issues/18653)

Alan

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### Author: ![cobo](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/f17d59/32.png) [@cobo](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/cobo)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2019, 7:25am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/looking-for-a-point-or-cell-labelling-filter/1137/3 "2019-01-15T07:25:58Z")

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Thanks - that’s good news: the proposed solution sounds even better than a dedicated filter!

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### Author: ![arthur](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/958977/32.png) [@arthur](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/arthur)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2019, 6:56am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/looking-for-a-point-or-cell-labelling-filter/1137/4 "2019-01-20T06:56:58Z")

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is there way to output all selected point data into a file？

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### Author: ![cory.quammen](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/cory.quammen/32/11193_2.png) [@cory.quammen](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/cory.quammen)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2019, 3:18pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/looking-for-a-point-or-cell-labelling-filter/1137/5 "2019-01-20T15:18:28Z")

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Once you have points selected, you can add an **Extract Selection** filter (either from the _Find Data_ dialog or the Filters -\> Data Analysis -\> Extract Selection menu). Then save the extracted points to a file with the File -\> Save Data menu item.