# Ways to load nodes into Slicer scene WITHOUT displaying them immediately

**URL:** <https://discourse.slicer.org/t/ways-to-load-nodes-into-slicer-scene-without-displaying-them-immediately/1138>\
**Category:** Development\
**Created:** [September 27, 2017, 8:57pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/ways-to-load-nodes-into-slicer-scene-without-displaying-them-immediately/1138 "2017-09-27T20:57:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![mschumaker](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/mschumaker/32/1395_2.png) [@mschumaker](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/mschumaker)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2017, 6:15pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/ways-to-load-nodes-into-slicer-scene-without-displaying-them-immediately/1138/5 "2017-10-13T18:15:16Z")

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Thank you, that’s a great feature. I had asked something very similar to this post a couple of months ago. If I load a volume with ‘show’ set to False, how would I then display it in one (and only one) of the slice views?

> [@Override automatic display of newly-loaded volume?](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/override-automatic-display-of-newly-loaded-volume/846):
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> Writing my first module. When I use the DICOM widget to load an image set, and use a qMRMLNodeComboBox, the newly-loaded node is automatically displayed in the Red, Yellow, and Green MRML slice views. I’m hoping to override this action, so that the newly-loaded volume is only displayed in either (but only one of) the Red or Yellow view. How would I do that? Thanks. Code is below: def setup(self): ScriptedLoadableModuleWidget.setup(self) #Link to image database for SSFP self.LoadS…

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