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## [Login example for node-red-contrib-uibuilder dashboard is needed](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/login-example-for-node-red-contrib-uibuilder-dashboard-is-needed/66544)

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**Author:** [@nensak](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/nensak)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [17 August 2022 13:37 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/login-example-for-node-red-contrib-uibuilder-dashboard-is-needed/66544 "2022-08-17T13:37:39Z")

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Hello, I'd like to thank to Julian and all involved community for the development of node-red-contrib-uibuilder. It's amazing job. I spent a lot of time during last year learning Node-red, fallowing posts, docs, videos…

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## [Nodered crashing when using the node-red-contrib-cast node](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/nodered-crashing-when-using-the-node-red-contrib-cast-node/66550)

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**Author:** [@aaamoeder](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/aaamoeder)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [17 August 2022 12:57 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/nodered-crashing-when-using-the-node-red-contrib-cast-node/66550 "2022-08-17T12:57:10Z")

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I'm using this node to play audio on some of my cast enabled devices and although it functions, each time the node is called, node-red crashes with an error mentioning the node.error call telling me it's not a function ? …

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## [I would like to include the value of a slider in a function](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/i-would-like-to-include-the-value-of-a-slider-in-a-function/66542)

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**Author:** [@kieron1](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/kieron1)\
**Replies:** 8\
**Last updated:** [17 August 2022 10:47 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/i-would-like-to-include-the-value-of-a-slider-in-a-function/66542 "2022-08-17T10:47:06Z")

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## [Issue with the TypedInput widget ("Select multiple items from a list of options" variant)](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/issue-with-the-typedinput-widget-select-multiple-items-from-a-list-of-options-variant/66476)

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**Author:** [@MoonDev](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/MoonDev)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [17 August 2022 10:09 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/issue-with-the-typedinput-widget-select-multiple-items-from-a-list-of-options-variant/66476 "2022-08-17T10:09:14Z")

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Hello, I'm having an issue with the TypedInput widget in the "Select multiple items from a list of options" variant. The Problem is when I initially open the edit page of my node the dropdown shows e.g. "4 Selected" whi…

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## [Wanted: Curated list of "great" nodes (preferably a pinned post or in the documentation somewhere)](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/wanted-curated-list-of-great-nodes-preferably-a-pinned-post-or-in-the-documentation-somewhere/66512)

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**Author:** [@Laro88](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Laro88)\
**Replies:** 15\
**Last updated:** [17 August 2022 08:02 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/wanted-curated-list-of-great-nodes-preferably-a-pinned-post-or-in-the-documentation-somewhere/66512 "2022-08-17T08:02:30Z")

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I have a simple yet difficult request for beginners like me. My desire is for the ninjas to put up a list of Nodes that are well laid out and structured - simply to have a "look at these nodes on github for inspiration"…

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## [Guidance for parsing & manipulating data from an API](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/guidance-for-parsing-manipulating-data-from-an-api/66510)

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**Author:** [@Corey](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Corey)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [17 August 2022 06:00 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/guidance-for-parsing-manipulating-data-from-an-api/66510 "2022-08-17T06:00:29Z")

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Hi, I'm accessing data from an API and am triggering the I/O on a RevPi based on the data. I'm wondering on the best approach to parse the data and act on it. My programming now is becoming somewhat unwieldy. I have the…

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## [How do I install Node-RED in Jetson Nano board](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-do-i-install-node-red-in-jetson-nano-board/66490)

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**Author:** [@eldho1416](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/eldho1416)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [17 August 2022 04:49 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-do-i-install-node-red-in-jetson-nano-board/66490 "2022-08-17T04:49:36Z")

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I have been trying to install node-red in jetson nano but it is not installing because npm error Thanks for help

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## [Nodered as a BACnet client - Object count capacity](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/nodered-as-a-bacnet-client-object-count-capacity/66526)

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**Author:** [@quizoxy](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/quizoxy)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [17 August 2022 04:30 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/nodered-as-a-bacnet-client-object-count-capacity/66526 "2022-08-17T04:30:13Z")

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Greetings, I am currently working to Deploy Node-red as a BACnet client. I understand that to do this i would need to install node-red-contrib-bacnet. I am working on a project that estimates 15-20k data points from t…

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## [CMD Factory Input](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/cmd-factory-input/66519)

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**Author:** [@bucks7756](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/bucks7756)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [17 August 2022 02:12 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/cmd-factory-input/66519 "2022-08-17T02:12:58Z")

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I hope this is simple. I'm reading a value from a tag that has an integer value. I need to pass that into command factory to a multi-level switch to control dimness. I get an error that it needs to be an array. How d…

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## [\[ANNOUNCE\] node-red-contrib-v8-cpu-profiler: beta](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/announce-node-red-contrib-v8-cpu-profiler-beta/56017)

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**Author:** [@BartButenaers](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/BartButenaers)\
**Replies:** 18\
**Last updated:** [16 August 2022 21:03 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/announce-node-red-contrib-v8-cpu-profiler-beta/56017 "2022-08-16T21:03:24Z")

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Hi folks, I saw tonight a discussion about CPU usage being 100% at irregular moments, which makes it very hard to figure out the root cause. Because: Since you don't know when it happens you cannot simply start a pro…

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## [Read 10 modbus slave](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/read-10-modbus-slave/66479)

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**Author:** [@VEENS973](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/VEENS973)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [16 August 2022 20:36 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/read-10-modbus-slave/66479 "2022-08-16T20:36:12Z")

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hi i need to know how read 10 modbsu slave holding register with node red. Not it same time but by sequencial read. please help me

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## [Postmessage from Node-Red to webpage](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/postmessage-from-node-red-to-webpage/66514)

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**Author:** [@werneroostendorp](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/werneroostendorp)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [16 August 2022 19:16 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/postmessage-from-node-red-to-webpage/66514 "2022-08-16T19:16:58Z")

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hi, i am trying to interact from Node-Red towards a webpage (online POS) via Postmessage. already tried a lot of options but without succes. Hope someone can help me getting started. Is there a node where i can pass …

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## [Problem to get robust Modbus connection to SMA Inverter](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/problem-to-get-robust-modbus-connection-to-sma-inverter/66343)

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**Author:** [@klaus123](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/klaus123)\
**Replies:** 23\
**Last updated:** [16 August 2022 18:48 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/problem-to-get-robust-modbus-connection-to-sma-inverter/66343 "2022-08-16T18:48:26Z")

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Hallo I run Node Red in a Home Assistant environment as an Add-on. I have a TCP-connection to a SMA Tripower Inverter and read date via Modbus-Getter which works fine in general, but after some minutes, hours, days or…

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## [How to make a OK/Cancel Dialog open a window in a browser](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-to-make-a-ok-cancel-dialog-open-a-window-in-a-browser/66507)

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**Author:** [@Wilay](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Wilay)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [16 August 2022 18:29 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-to-make-a-ok-cancel-dialog-open-a-window-in-a-browser/66507 "2022-08-16T18:29:29Z")

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I've tried everything and I am beyond confused right now. I am trying to make it so when I click on the Confirm button of my dialog (Dashboard nodes), it redirects me to a certain URL. I know I could use the UI Control n…

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## [Uibuilder web components](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/uibuilder-web-components/66453)

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**Author:** [@magicman](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/magicman)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [16 August 2022 17:29 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/uibuilder-web-components/66453 "2022-08-16T17:29:11Z")

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Hi, i am attempting to send a temperature value of lets say 29 to uibuilder using web components i have an inject button that sends this:- { "method": "update", "id": "otemp", } i also send a msg.payload of "29" i…

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## [Example needed for context menu](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/example-needed-for-context-menu/66319)

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**Author:** [@kvramji](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/kvramji)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [16 August 2022 16:19 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/example-needed-for-context-menu/66319 "2022-08-16T16:19:59Z")

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I just started playing with the SVG nodes and context menu. I would like to know if there is anyway i can fill the label field in the following image to display something i pass from another node. Sadly, this is wha…

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## [MQTT was working well then not - NR says connected but no data](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/mqtt-was-working-well-then-not-nr-says-connected-but-no-data/66503)

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**Author:** [@rbmgf7](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/rbmgf7)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [16 August 2022 15:54 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/mqtt-was-working-well-then-not-nr-says-connected-but-no-data/66503 "2022-08-16T15:54:49Z")

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Noob problems. Had Mosquitto and NR running well for a couple days then suddenly this morning, it just stopped. I was suddenly getting erratic data on another subscribed client. Ran a debug on NR and the data was sporad…

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## [Scheduling MQTT](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/scheduling-mqtt/66472)

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**Author:** [@mynoderocks](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/mynoderocks)\
**Replies:** 14\
**Last updated:** [16 August 2022 15:48 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/scheduling-mqtt/66472 "2022-08-16T15:48:17Z")

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I am sure this is a really quick question, I have just confused myself :slight\_smile: I have a value from MQTT that I want to store at 23:55pm every night. It is the total kWh that IoT device has logged for the day (so …

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## [Node-RED Docker Container SSL](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-docker-container-ssl/66501)

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**Author:** [@dereckradford](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/dereckradford)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [16 August 2022 15:26 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-docker-container-ssl/66501 "2022-08-16T15:26:22Z")

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I have been struggling to get my node-red container secure as it doesn't seem to like the settings.js. I have installed the SSL's in /data/ but I get the following error below. I have tried specifying in the config /data…

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## [Array Manipulation](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/array-manipulation/66329)

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**Author:** [@Jaime\_G](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Jaime_G)\
**Replies:** 12\
**Last updated:** [16 August 2022 14:41 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/array-manipulation/66329 "2022-08-16T14:41:42Z")

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Hello community! Hopefully a simple and fast one here, I'm reading four registers using a Modbus read and need to convert this to date/time using epoch (a great discussion already posted in this forum on how to do that …

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## [ Can I get information of logged in user in a node in js file?](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/can-i-get-information-of-logged-in-user-in-a-node-in-js-file/66155)

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**Author:** [@BlackFlower](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/BlackFlower)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [16 August 2022 14:07 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/can-i-get-information-of-logged-in-user-in-a-node-in-js-file/66155 "2022-08-16T14:07:22Z")

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Can I now get logged in user information when I'm on node-red-contrib? And how to get it? Thanks,

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## [Automatically Fullscreen dashboard?](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/automatically-fullscreen-dashboard/66444)

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**Author:** [@marllondutra12](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/marllondutra12)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [16 August 2022 12:58 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/automatically-fullscreen-dashboard/66444 "2022-08-16T12:58:28Z")

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Hello, Is it possible the dashboard automatically gets fullscreen when connected? I can do this with a button, but not automatically. My node red version: Node-RED v2.1.6 Code to get full screen when pressed a button: …

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## [Chart JS error update value horizontal line](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/chart-js-error-update-value-horizontal-line/66466)

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**Author:** [@DiogoI4.0](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/DiogoI4.0)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [16 August 2022 12:34 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/chart-js-error-update-value-horizontal-line/66466 "2022-08-16T12:34:22Z")

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\<https://github.com/DiogoMesquitaInd/chartjs\> Hi everyone, my first question on the forum so I'm sorry if I'm doing something wrong. I'm using the chartJS library inside HTML to work better later with Node-RED. However…

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## [I need to check if the PDF file has a specific text](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/i-need-to-check-if-the-pdf-file-has-a-specific-text/66486)

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**Author:** [@Eduardo1](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Eduardo1)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [16 August 2022 12:18 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/i-need-to-check-if-the-pdf-file-has-a-specific-text/66486 "2022-08-16T12:18:00Z")

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Hi friends. I'm building an on-line market using telegram bots. I need to validate the proof of payment, all automatically. The idea is the following: the person will send the proof of payment in the form of a pdf in th…

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## [Src file custom template](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/src-file-custom-template/66481)

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**Author:** [@joshuaC](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/joshuaC)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [16 August 2022 11:05 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/src-file-custom-template/66481 "2022-08-16T11:05:22Z")

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Hello, I have an http endpoint, with a template node that display some html/javascript/css. I would like to add a local css file and an image. Something like that : This seems like a simple thing to do but I cannot …

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## [Create a function with 2 outputs with condition](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/create-a-function-with-2-outputs-with-condition/66424)

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**Author:** [@azertym](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/azertym)\
**Replies:** 22\
**Last updated:** [16 August 2022 10:50 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/create-a-function-with-2-outputs-with-condition/66424 "2022-08-16T10:50:26Z")

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Hi all, I want to make a function node with 2 conditions and so 2 output. This node need to check if 2 conditions are true. Conditions are : 70 values and SHORT are true go to msg 1 (output 1) else go to msg 2 (outpu…

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## [Global Object \> Influx DB](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/global-object-influx-db/66477)

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**Author:** [@mynoderocks](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/mynoderocks)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [16 August 2022 10:41 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/global-object-influx-db/66477 "2022-08-16T10:41:33Z")

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Hi all, I was watching a youtube video where I saw parts of the code of a great idea I am trying to replicate. Idea: Values streaming from MQTT create a Global Object with the value(s) so something to this effect (fro…

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## [Question re helping newbies and canned text/links](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/question-re-helping-newbies-and-canned-text-links/66426)

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**Author:** [@craigcurtin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/craigcurtin)\
**Replies:** 10\
**Last updated:** [16 August 2022 09:57 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/question-re-helping-newbies-and-canned-text-links/66426 "2022-08-16T09:57:13Z")

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Guys, I notice that some of the more prolific regulars on the forums quote the same stuff over and over again to newbies - this is one that i just pulled out from Colin Just interested in what everyone uses to keep tr…

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## [Reading data from database and sending to uibuilder](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/reading-data-from-database-and-sending-to-uibuilder/66432)

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**Author:** [@miladmrm](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/miladmrm)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [16 August 2022 09:28 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/reading-data-from-database-and-sending-to-uibuilder/66432 "2022-08-16T09:28:25Z")

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I am developing a dashboard in uibuilder. Some of my data should be stored in the database and read from the database and displayed on the dashboard. I have no problem when storing data (I take the relevant output from u…

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## [Making it easier to work within a team with Nodered](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/making-it-easier-to-work-within-a-team-with-nodered/65860)

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**Author:** [@miziagui](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/miziagui)\
**Replies:** 28\
**Last updated:** [16 August 2022 08:34 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/making-it-easier-to-work-within-a-team-with-nodered/65860 "2022-08-16T08:34:03Z")

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Hey everyone, We have been using NodeRed within a team of 4 people on financial systems for almost a year now and we recently greatly improved our ability to actually work without going crazy. So im here to share a few…

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