There are a few different ways to control which variables are used in the model.
1) on the Data tab you can set the variable roles (as input, rejected (not used), or other roles). These will get used as the defaults for all models in all pipelines in your project.
2) Within a pipeline, use the Manage Variables node (as you are) to set the inputs for any models that follow this downstream
3) Use the Variable Selection node to intelligently automatically determine which variables are most influential (with a number of techniques for this available)...as opposed to manually selecting them yourself. https://go.documentation.sas.com/doc/en/capcdc/v_018/vdmmlcdc/vdmmlref/p1l7tl7hddl0lon138uretl5muac....
You can see hat inputs were used in the model by opening the Results for the modeling node after it was run.
Hope this helps.