Bypass Switch By Title

Bypass By Title gives you an on/off for a set of nodes. Bypass Switch By Title is the multi-position version: a dropdown where each option is its own configuration, and picking one bypasses every other option's nodes. If you've ever wanted to switch a workflow between "fast draft," "full quality," and "video pass" from a single dropdown without deleting anything, this is the node.

How it works

The concept is inverted from what you might expect, so read this twice. Each option has a label (what appears in the dropdown) and a nodes list - and the nodes list contains the titles to bypass when that option is NOT active. The active option is the one whose nodes stay live; everything else gets bypassed. That's how a single dropdown cleanly enforces "exactly one configuration at a time."

Up to 16 options, each with its own labelN and nodesN inputs. The controls:

• bypass - the combo dropdown showing the active option.
• count - how many options to show (1–16). You don't have to fill all 16.
• selected - the 1-based index of the active option, updated automatically when you change the dropdown. Handy if you want to read or drive the selection numerically.
• search_from_root / enforce - same semantics as Bypass By Title: search the root graph from inside subgraphs, and actively prevent other nodes from overriding the state.

Title matching is case-insensitive and supports partial titles, so detailer matches a node titled "face detailer v2". It outputs bypass as a string (the active option's label) and index as an int.

Why you'd reach for it

The workflow that has three modes - draft, standard, upscale - each wiring different samplers, detailers, and post-processing. Instead of a pile of switches and a table of what's on when, this is one dropdown that defines the modes in place: each option's nodes list is the stuff to turn off when you're in another mode. It's a group-muter with presets, and it reads far better than a boolean per stage.

Install

Part of Nifty Nodes for ComfyUI. Manager: search "Nifty Nodes for ComfyUI" → Install → restart. Manual:

cd ComfyUI/custom_nodes
git clone https://github.com/Stibo/comfyui-nifty-nodes

Restart ComfyUI. No models, no special dependencies. Like the rest of Utils, it's experimental, and the pack is young (v2.1.0, mid-2026) - update before loading workflows that use it.

Gotchas

The inverted bypass semantics will bite you exactly once. It's natural to write the nodes you want active into an option - wrong; you write the nodes to disable. Double-check by toggling the dropdown and watching which sections grey out. Second, partial title matching is powerful and dangerous - a short title like img matches everything containing it. And remember bypass passes inputs through: bypassed nodes don't disappear, downstream nodes still run on passthrough values.