# Publish a graph

**URL:** <https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/publish-a-graph/1804>\
**Category:** Packages\
**Created:** [July 16, 2015, 2:36am UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/publish-a-graph/1804 "2015-07-16T02:36:23Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Colin\_Magner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/22d042/32.png) [@Colin\_Magner](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/Colin_Magner)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2015, 2:36am UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/publish-a-graph/1804/1 "2015-07-16T02:36:23Z")

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Hello,

I tried sharing a graph with a colleage for the first time yesterday and it completely failed to run on their PC, because I’d used nodes from three different packages which they didn’t have installed.

Actually working out which packages I’d used then proved to be tricky - it would be great if a node tooltip also showed the category info, although I suspect this info isn’t available anyway if you don’t have a package.

Is there a way to:

1. Publish a graph in such a way that any nodes used from 3rd party packages are bound into the graph?
2. Easily identify which package a node came from if you don't have that package installed?

Thanks

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**Author:** ![Andreas\_Dieckmann](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.dynamobim.com/andreas_dieckmann/32/365_2.png) [@Andreas\_Dieckmann](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/Andreas_Dieckmann)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2015, 3:27am UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/publish-a-graph/1804/2 "2015-07-16T03:27:41Z")

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See this feature request:

> <https://github.com/DynamoDS/Dynamo/issues/1171>
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> It would be really helpful if Dynamo could automatically determine the dependencies of a .dyn file \*and offer to install the...

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**Author:** ![Colin\_Magner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/22d042/32.png) [@Colin\_Magner](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/Colin_Magner)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2015, 2:19am UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/publish-a-graph/1804/3 "2015-07-17T02:19:09Z")

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Thanks for the info. Offering to install packages seems like a good solution.
