A composition’s published ports are displayed in sidebars, which you can show and hide using the menu
.You can publish any input or output port in a composition. Do this by right-clicking on the port and selecting
from the context menu. You can unpublish the port by right-clicking on the port again and selecting .Alternatively, you can publish a port by dragging a cable from the port to the
well that appears in the sidebar when you start dragging.You can create a published port without immediately connecting it to a port inside the composition by clicking on the New Port button in the sidebar. This pops up a menu for you to choose the data type of the published port. Once the published port has been created, you can drag a cable from it and connect the cable to any compatible port within the composition.
In the sidebars, you can rename a published port by right-clicking on the published port and selecting
. You can reorder published ports (except those that are part of a protocol) by dragging the name of a published port up or down in the sidebar.For published ports with numerical data types (integers, real numbers, 2D points, 3D points, and 4D points), you can modify the behavior of their input editors by right-clicking on the published port in the sidebar and selecting
. The Suggested Min and Suggested Max determine the range of values provided by the input editor’s slider or spinbox (arrow buttons). The Suggested Step controls the amount by which each click on a spinbox button increments or decrements the value.