# Is there any way to get the ids of the cells which are picked by using AreaPicker?

**URL:** https://discourse.vtk.org/t/is-there-any-way-to-get-the-ids-of-the-cells-which-are-picked-by-using-areapicker/7185
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [November 16, 2021, 4:20am UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/is-there-any-way-to-get-the-ids-of-the-cells-which-are-picked-by-using-areapicker/7185 "2021-11-16T04:20:31Z")
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### Author: ![AlexLuya](https://discourse.vtk.org/user_avatar/discourse.vtk.org/alexluya/32/4036_2.png) [@AlexLuya](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/AlexLuya)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2021, 4:20am UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/is-there-any-way-to-get-the-ids-of-the-cells-which-are-picked-by-using-areapicker/7185/1 "2021-11-16T04:20:31Z")

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Hello, I want to color the picked cells of origin actor,rather then to create a new actor to represent the picked cells,is there any way to get the ids of picked cells in original actor?