Paraview Plugin Mulitple Output port

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Hello , I am into writing a plugin for Paraview, I am having three output ports.

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The first port Structure is for Multi-block data set and second port Property is for Structured Grid and the third port Settings is vtkTable.
When I open the file for reading all the three output ports are enable and it looks like as in Figure 2.
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I don’t want that 3rd port Settings of Vtk Table to be loaded by default.
I have used the following in the Server-manager XML file but it has no effect i intended

           <OutputPort name="Structure" index="0" visible="1"/>
           <OutputPort name="Property"  index="1" visible="1" />
           <OutputPort name="Settings" index="2" visible ="0"/>

Any help in this regard is highly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

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  <OutputPort index="0" name="Structure" />
  <OutputPort index="1" name="Property" />
  <OutputPort index="1" name="Settings" />
  <Hints>
    <View type="RenderView" port="0" />
    <View type="RenderView" port="1" />
    <View type="None" port="2" />
  </Hints>

This should do the trick

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Mathieu,
Thanks for your kind reply. Yes, now it worked exactly. Could you also please tell which section of Paraview code there is a mention about this ? Say, If I want to understand it by myself what is it the index in the above code represents? if it is port whose meaning is a kind of very obvious. Will there be a mention of functional definitions of these XML keywords like index , port in the comments section of the code dealing with it? If So can you please spot those parts to me? I have found the following link which has some contents about the XML definitions
https://www.paraview.org/Wiki/ServerManager_XML_Hints
But it seems to be bit outdated.

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The wiki is being phased out.

All info is here now:
https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/blob/master/Utilities/Doxygen/pages/ProxyHints.md
https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/blob/master/Utilities/Doxygen/pages/PropertyHints.md
https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/blob/master/Utilities/Doxygen/pages/PluginHowto.md

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The markdown files @mwestphal referred to are processed by doxygen and are accessible here: https://kitware.github.io/paraview-docs/nightly/cxx/.

The link also provides docs for multiple versions of ParaView including master.

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Much better, thanks @utkarsh.ayachit

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Thanks @mwestphal and @utkarsh.ayachit . The recommendations are very helpful and it contains resourceful information that I needed.