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Geometry Nodes : Attribute search is empty when another object is active
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Broken: actual master

Short description of error
When the geometrynode tree is pinned and another object is selected, the attribute search dropdown is empty.

Exact steps for others to reproduce the error
Add a cube, add a geometry nodes modifier, pin the geonodes panel to the cube and add an empty. Then try to use some attribute dropdown search.
See the two screenshots

untitled.blend775 KBDownload

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Colin Marmond (Kdaf) created this task.Mar 8 2021, 9:18 PM
Colin Marmond (Kdaf) edited projects, added Geometry Nodes; removed BF Blender.
Colin Marmond (Kdaf) added a project: BF Blender.
Colin Marmond (Kdaf) renamed this task from Geometry Nodes : Attribute search is empty when the another object is active to Geometry Nodes : Attribute search is empty when another object is active.Mar 8 2021, 9:20 PM
Dalai Felinto (dfelinto) closed this task as Archived.Mar 17 2021, 3:13 PM
Dalai Felinto (dfelinto) added a subscriber: Dalai Felinto (dfelinto).

It is working as designed. What is being pinned is the nodetree, not the object. And the nodetree doesn't have the entire context to get the attribute search to work.

Philipp Oeser (lichtwerk) mentioned this in T90787: Geometry nodes editor: attribute search do not appear if object is not active (but nodetree is pinned).Aug 20 2021, 4:00 PM
Philipp Oeser (lichtwerk) merged a task: T90787: Geometry nodes editor: attribute search do not appear if object is not active (but nodetree is pinned).
Philipp Oeser (lichtwerk) added subscribers: Vyacheslav (hitrpr), Philipp Oeser (lichtwerk), Pratik Borhade (PratikPB2123).
Vyacheslav (hitrpr) added a comment.Aug 20 2021, 4:08 PM

@Dalai Felinto (dfelinto)
Okay, i see.

the nodetree doesn't have the entire context

So other words, it means, tree do not know about actual/current owner (or owners) so it can`t determine the proper one, right?
And there is no way to pin an object too, I suppose?

Dalai Felinto (dfelinto) added a comment.Aug 20 2021, 4:39 PM

Correct and correct. We are changing this anyways for Fields, so stay tuned.