# Viewing .vtk files for each mesh domain in a time series - IS IT POSSIBLE?

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/viewing-vtk-files-for-each-mesh-domain-in-a-time-series-is-it-possible/577
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [September 14, 2018, 8:54am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/viewing-vtk-files-for-each-mesh-domain-in-a-time-series-is-it-possible/577 "2018-09-14T08:54:49Z")
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### Author: ![utkarsh.ayachit](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/utkarsh.ayachit/32/39_2.png) [@utkarsh.ayachit](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/utkarsh.ayachit)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2018, 2:28pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/viewing-vtk-files-for-each-mesh-domain-in-a-time-series-is-it-possible/577/4 "2018-09-14T14:28:42Z")

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If you look at the vtk.series format, it’s simply a json with the name of the file and the timestep it corresponds to.

```json
{
  "file-series-version" : "1.0",
  "files" : [
    { "name" : "foo1.vtk", "time" : 0 },
    { "name" : "foo2.vtk", "time" : 5.5 },
    { "name" : "foo3.vtk", "time" : 11.2 }
  ]
}

```

That how ParaView will know which file to load for a particular time.

You should be able to put together such a file manually too, but doing it 93 times can be tedious :), hence my suggestion to automate it using some scripting language of your choice.

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