diff --git a/Applications/Utils/ModelPreparation/PartitionMesh/NodeWiseMeshPartitioner.cpp b/Applications/Utils/ModelPreparation/PartitionMesh/NodeWiseMeshPartitioner.cpp
index 268dad7e59ab593e961d6a892c7d0e64ee9ee6a4..96936df6049900fe8086528212e63eb935446436 100644
--- a/Applications/Utils/ModelPreparation/PartitionMesh/NodeWiseMeshPartitioner.cpp
+++ b/Applications/Utils/ModelPreparation/PartitionMesh/NodeWiseMeshPartitioner.cpp
@@ -220,7 +220,8 @@ void NodeWiseMeshPartitioner::processProperties()
     // 2 resize the PV with total_number_of_tuples
     // 3 copy the values according to the partition info
     auto const& original_properties(_mesh->getProperties());
-    auto property_names = original_properties.getPropertyVectorNames();
+    auto const property_names =
+        original_properties.getPropertyVectorNames(MeshLib::MeshItemType::Node);
     for (auto const& name : property_names)
     {
         bool success =
@@ -332,9 +333,13 @@ NodeWiseMeshPartitioner::getNumberOfIntegerVariablesOfElements(
 void NodeWiseMeshPartitioner::writeNodePropertiesBinary(
     const std::string& file_name_base) const
 {
-    auto const& property_names(_partitioned_properties.getPropertyVectorNames());
+    auto const& property_names(_partitioned_properties.getPropertyVectorNames(
+        MeshLib::MeshItemType::Node));
     if (property_names.empty())
         return;
+
+    std::size_t number_of_properties(property_names.size());
+
     const std::string fname_cfg = file_name_base +
                                   "_partitioned_node_properties_cfg" +
                                   std::to_string(_npartitions) + ".bin";
@@ -345,7 +350,6 @@ void NodeWiseMeshPartitioner::writeNodePropertiesBinary(
                                   std::to_string(_npartitions) + ".bin";
     std::ofstream out_val(fname_val.c_str(), std::ios::binary | std::ios::out);
 
-    std::size_t number_of_properties(property_names.size());
     out.write(reinterpret_cast<char*>(&number_of_properties),
               sizeof(number_of_properties));
     for (auto const& name : property_names)