# Selecting a node using the API

**URL:** <https://forum.universal-robots.com/t/selecting-a-node-using-the-api/3647>\
**Category:** URCap Development\
**Created:** [February 13, 2019, 3:59pm UTC](https://forum.universal-robots.com/t/selecting-a-node-using-the-api/3647 "2019-02-13T15:59:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![thph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b77776/32.png) [@thph](https://forum.universal-robots.com/u/thph)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2019, 8:44am UTC](https://forum.universal-robots.com/t/selecting-a-node-using-the-api/3647/2 "2019-02-15T08:44:11Z")

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It is possible to show a summary of the parameters set on the child node. Take a look at this example:

> [@URCap Sample: URCap CustomAPI](https://forum.universal-robots.com/t/sample-urcap-customapi/3022):
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> URCap CustomAPI Description of functionality: This example demonstrated the usage of the URCap CustomAPI interface. Allowing a parent node to configure the configuration of its child node. In this example, this is covered by allowing the parent node to define the color of the child node. What topics are covered: Proprietary API, Custom API, parent node, child node, interfaces [Find it on Github!](https://github.com/BomMadsen/URCap-CustomAPI) Requirements: URCaps API 1.3 (Swing)

It is the responsibility of the user to select a node in polyScope. Therefore it is not supported to set which node is selected.

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