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Hide unpublished nodes and attributes

You can hide all unpublished information in a container with the Black Box option. When a container is in Black Box mode:

• Only published roots, parent anchors, child anchors and other containers appear when the container is expanded in any editor.
• Unpublished nodes encapsulated by the container are not shown in the DAG hierarchy.
• Unpublished nodes are removed from the Channel Box and Attribute Editor.
• Unpublished nodes become un-selectable in the scene. Trying to select an unpublished node from the container instead selects whatever container-centric selection would select.
• Pick-walking only selects published nodes.
• Black Box containers cannot be expanded in the Hypergraph.
• Using the Select Container Contents option only selects published nodes.

To set a container as a Black Box

1. Select a container in your scene.
2. Open the Attribute Editor.
3. In the Container Attributes section, turn on Black Box.