It seems inconsistent for cluster input/output renaming and description to be updated: update naming and description inside cluster save and exit to main canvas cluster on canvas still has the same old name and description sometime datatype not recognized correctly, for example list of objects is …

[image] How to set initial values of a cluster? Grasshopper Thank you! This one will make the task even simpler! Not sure if this is a bug, Sometimes if I change the name of the Cluster Input and save it the corresponding slot name of the cluster will not be synchronized…

Yup, I remember this actually being one of my first topics on the old forum, which would have been around 7 or so years ago. By now it has become second nature to either name the inputs and outputs properly when I create them or just delete one and create a new one when I need to edit the name/desc…

Thnx for the discussion Armin, I wonder without cluster how do you turn repeated “code” into a “function” and “call”, modify and update it everywhere?

[image] Jun_Wang: how do you turn repeated “code” into a “function” and “call”, modify and update it everywhere? I normally don’t have those cases very often. If I have a small cluster of things that I think is useful elsewhere I will turn it into a user object. That means it can’t be updated…

Came here to report that this is still an issue in December 2025 :slight_smile:

Yes this is sloppy behaviour of clusters and should be fixed.

Grasshopper cluster input/output renaming not updated?

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Quan_Li (Quan Li) November 3, 2023, 5:00pm 2

Seems like the problem is quite old, maybe from the beginning of GH1.
Not that I need a solution, but I am actually quite curious why it cannot be fixed.

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