Add an input sampling strategy

If your input datasets are large, you can speed up preview times by adding a sampling strategy to those inputs.

  1. Right-click the input node that you would like to sample, then select Sampling strategies in the dropdown menu.
A dropdown menu with the Sampling strategies option.
  1. From the sampling strategies dialog, select the desired input dataset.
The sampling strategies dialog.
  1. Choose the Percentage strategy, and enter a number between 1 and 100 to downsample your input.
The sampling strategies dialog configured to use a 20% strategy.
  1. Close the dialog. A blue badge should now appear on the top right of your input node, indicating that a sampling strategy has been applied.
An input node showing a sampling strategies indicator.

The preview panel of any nodes downstream of the input will also indicate that sampling was applied.

Sampling strategies are applied to downstream inputs.