.. _auto_binout_output_selector:

*ALLOWS SELECTION OF BINOUT MENU*
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Presents an interactive binout menu so users can select one or more output channels from an LS-DYNA binout file. Use this worker to let downstream nodes receive only the specific time-history responses the user picks from the available binout hierarchy.

When to use
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Tagged: ``binout``, ``channel-selection``, ``menu``, ``selector``, ``time-history``, ``user``.

Inputs
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   * - Label
     - ID
     - Type
     - Default
     - Required
     - Description
   * - Binout Id
     - binout_id
     - text
     - —
     - ✓
     - Unique identifier referencing the binout file resource registered on the platform; required so the worker knows which file's menu to load.
   * - Binout Id
     - binout_label
     - text
     - —
     - ✓
     - Human-readable display label for the binout file, used to annotate the selection UI and downstream outputs.
   * - Binout Menu
     - binout_menu
     - dataset
     - —
     - 
     - Dataset populated from /api/binout/config_menu that renders the hierarchical binout channel tree; leave at default to auto-fetch the menu for the given binout_id.

Outputs
-------

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   * - Label
     - ID
     - Type
     - Description
   * - Binout Selections
     - responses
     - dataset
     - Dataset of user-selected binout channel paths and metadata (component, entity IDs, result type) to be consumed by downstream extraction or response workers.

Disciplines
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- cae.postprocessing.extraction

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