# Nodes To Keep Info
**URL:** https://forum.highend3d.com/t/nodes-to-keep-info/3219
**Category:** Maya
**Tags:** mel
**Created:** [March 21, 2006, 2:38pm UTC](https://forum.highend3d.com/t/nodes-to-keep-info/3219 "2006-03-21T14:38:06Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@user\_deleted](https://forum.highend3d.com/u/user_deleted)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2006, 2:38pm UTC](https://forum.highend3d.com/t/nodes-to-keep-info/3219/1 "2006-03-21T14:38:06Z")
Hi
I have some nodes in ma scene that keep info (shot info, asset info ...). Until now i always used empty transform nodes, but "Optimize Scene Size" throws them away. I also would like the nodes to be invisible in outliner in 'DAG only" mode, so they don't get deleted by accident. What kind of nodes do you recomend ? Maybe i could connect those nodes to some default maya node (ie. renderSettingsNode) so that maya keeps it when cleaning scene...
thx, michal
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### Author:  [@kurianos3d](https://forum.highend3d.com/u/kurianos3d)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2006, 3:02pm UTC](https://forum.highend3d.com/t/nodes-to-keep-info/3219/2 "2006-03-21T15:02:14Z")
Hi
Yes you can use scriptNode;
CODE
scriptNode -st 2 -bs "shot info" -n "shot\_info";
addAttr -ln comments -dt "string" shot\_info;
addAttr -ln stat -dt "string" shot\_info;
scriptNode will be safe
regds
o.S.k
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### Author:  [@user\_deleted](https://forum.highend3d.com/u/user_deleted)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2006, 5:41pm UTC](https://forum.highend3d.com/t/nodes-to-keep-info/3219/3 "2006-03-21T17:41:51Z")
thx kurianos3d !
scriptNode seems like good candidate