Actions reference in Documentations

General
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There is a reference to different Actions in the Documentation, like this:
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What the action actually means?

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Hi and Welcome,
These actions are triggered mainly by shortcuts. As in your image, shortcut ctrl-g d will open the debug sidebar tab. These actions are used for a multitude of things like copying nodes, pasting nodes...

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Hi and thanks for a quick answer.
Is it possible to trigger such action otherwise, than with a keyboard shortcut?

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What sort of otherwise? Remember this is running in the browser, not the node-red server.

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Depends if you mean from the code or a user action:

  • User
    Right click on workspace then show action list
  • Code
    RED.actions.invoke("action-name")
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If one were to run that for code:show-debug-tab will it affect all editor browser sessions?

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From within a flow.

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Sorry, I don't understand how that answers my question. If I call RED.actions.invoke("code:show-debug-tab") in a function node, which browser session (or perhaps all) will that apply to?

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is a client side thing only. i.e. it is triggered by the action list or by a custom node (the HTML/client side part).

A flow runs server side. show debug is a client side thing. In short, no!

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Yes of course, I should have remembered that. Thanks.

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So does that mean that there is no way to clear debug messages from within a flow?

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No, there is no way to clear a user's client-side debug messages from a flow or any other server side operation.

There may be a plug-in or contrib node that does this, but not that I know of.

If you are willing/able to create a plugin, you could do it yourself.

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OK, thanks.