Creating a user-defined node

Before you start:

You must have created a user-defined node project before you can create a user-defined node.
To create the visual representation of your user-defined node in the workbench perform the following tasks:
  1. Creating the user-defined node plug-in files
  2. Defining the properties
You can also perform the following optional tasks:

Once you have created the node, you cannot move it to another folder.

Related concepts
User-defined input nodes
User-defined message processing nodes
User-defined output nodes
Related tasks
Developing user-defined extensions
Implementing the provided samples
Testing a user-defined node
Distributing a user-defined extension
Related reference
User-defined extensions