A way to retrieve the dashboard tab and group from within a flow?

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A way to retrieve the dashboard tab and group from within a flow? In various development APIs there are reflective or inspection methods for doing this type of thing, so wonder if something similar in NR?

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I am not entirely sure what you are looking for, but the ui control node reports dashboard interactions (ie. like changing tabs)

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Idea was or is that I could grab the tab/group name, and label controls, UI elements with the same name as desired. So if the group was 'Me' I could setup a button that was labeled 'Button Me' without resorting to static text or using a context variable even. This would make the flow modular in that any place I imported that flow would adapt to the tab or group name accordingly. I have a use case where the same flow maybe 5 or 10 instances running, all independent of each other where the key difference is the location of the given instance, say tab "one" versus "two". Like I said, it was just an idea, potential way to address how make something dynamic versus static.

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Use the ui_control node. If tab changes you get the name of the active tab in addition to the browser instance.

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Ah, that works for tabs, is there similar for groups? Just asking.

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read the documentation of the node:

When any browser client connects or loses connection, changes tab, or expands or collapses a group this node will emit a msg containing:

  • payload - connect , lost , change , or group .
  • socketid - the ID of the socket (this will change every time the browser reloads the page).
  • socketip - the ip address from where the connection originated.
  • tab - the number of the tab. (only for 'change' event).
  • name - the name of the tab. (only for 'change' event).
  • group - the name of the group. (only for 'group' event).
  • open - the state of the group. (only for 'group' event).
    Optional - report only connect events - useful to use to trigger a resend of data to a new client without needing to filter out other events.
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Read? Documentation? What a radical concept! Point Taken.

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