From 97f13a169b421ec8341f6f3c1b02a1cd5d1b4206 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Roy Nieterau <roy_nieterau@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2023 18:11:35 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Allow output node to be not collected, then correctly show
 error

---
 .../hosts/houdini/plugins/publish/validate_vdb_output_node.py   | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/openpype/hosts/houdini/plugins/publish/validate_vdb_output_node.py b/openpype/hosts/houdini/plugins/publish/validate_vdb_output_node.py
index 98a0796fec..b2b5c63799 100644
--- a/openpype/hosts/houdini/plugins/publish/validate_vdb_output_node.py
+++ b/openpype/hosts/houdini/plugins/publish/validate_vdb_output_node.py
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ class ValidateVDBOutputNode(pyblish.api.InstancePlugin):
     @classmethod
     def get_invalid(cls, instance):
 
-        node = instance.data["output_node"]
+        node = instance.data.get("output_node")
         if node is None:
             cls.log.error(
                 "SOP path is not correctly set on "