All,

Once again, I need help.  We are starting to assign names to our Exodus blocks 
(outside of Paraview).   This is very useful for ease and clarity of post 
processing and allows convenient reference to actual components.   The good 
news is that Paraview seems perfectly happy to read in the Block Names and use 
them in the Properties Panel and the Multi-block Inspector and the Find Data 
screen if they exist (no action or programming required for this).  So, for 
instance, instead of Paraview generating the non-useful name of "Unnamed block 
ID: 13 Type: hex" when the blockname is empty, it will automagically use the 
more useful Blockname of "Tread"  if that is in the Exodus file.

However, there has been an unintended consequence of this change.   If I select 
some elements and examine them in Spreadsheet View, I see Block Number 14( the 
+1 offset from Block_ID and Block Number is NOT the problem!).   And now I can 
no longer associate the element (Block Number 14) with it's block in the 
Properties Panel or the Multi-block Inspector or the Find Data panel - where 
the same block is called "Tread".

So, to remedy this situation I would like to add an element variable of 
BlockName, which would contain "Tread" for all the elements in BlockID 13, 
etc., etc. for all the blocks.

My only problem is I can't seem to find the list of Block Names.   I'm pretty 
weak at vtk, so it must be available but I surrender - I can't seem to find it. 
  If someone can help me find the list of Block Names from inside the 
Programmable Filter, I'll be happy to add the element variable myself.

Thanks for any help, again!

Dennis
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