# Add global options dynamically to ui-dropdown
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/add-global-options-dynamically-to-ui-dropdown/7923
**Category:** General
**Created:** [13 February 2019 11:39 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/add-global-options-dynamically-to-ui-dropdown/7923 "2019-02-13T11:39:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@hathemi](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/hathemi)
#### Post date: [13 February 2019 11:39 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/add-global-options-dynamically-to-ui-dropdown/7923/1 "2019-02-13T11:39:17Z")
i have a button in case i want to add other option to dropdown in my dashboard.
is there a possible way to add global options dynamically to ui-dropdown ???
thanks in advance.
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### Author:  [@dceejay](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/dceejay)
#### Post date: [13 February 2019 13:01 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/add-global-options-dynamically-to-ui-dropdown/7923/2 "2019-02-13T13:01:42Z")
you can dynamically inject all the options as per the info bar.
These values are read at deploy time so adding globals here would not make it dynamic - we could possibly add environment variables - but again they would only be read at deploy time.
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### Author:  [@hathemi](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/hathemi)
#### Post date: [13 February 2019 13:07 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/add-global-options-dynamically-to-ui-dropdown/7923/3 "2019-02-13T13:07:26Z")
> [@dceejay](#):
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> we could possibly add environment variables
how could it be possible ? is there an exemple ?
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### Author:  [@dceejay](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/dceejay)
#### Post date: [13 February 2019 13:15 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/add-global-options-dynamically-to-ui-dropdown/7923/4 "2019-02-13T13:15:20Z")
could = conditional future = it is possible to change the code to do this.
it has not been done yet - just a thought. (and there are no immediate plans to do so). - so nothing to see.
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### Author:  [@hathemi](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/hathemi)
#### Post date: [13 February 2019 13:17 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/add-global-options-dynamically-to-ui-dropdown/7923/5 "2019-02-13T13:17:31Z")
thnx anyway.
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### Author:  [@dceejay](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/dceejay)
#### Post date: [13 February 2019 16:58 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/add-global-options-dynamically-to-ui-dropdown/7923/6 "2019-02-13T16:58:39Z")
For now the answer is to inject the options you want as per the info sidebar, which would be as dynamic as you want.
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### Author:  [@danielo515](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/danielo515)
#### Post date: [30 January 2021 18:08 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/add-global-options-dynamically-to-ui-dropdown/7923/7 "2021-01-30T18:08:01Z")
Is this still impossible?
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### Author:  [@knolleary](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/knolleary)
#### Post date: [30 January 2021 18:14 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/add-global-options-dynamically-to-ui-dropdown/7923/8 "2021-01-30T18:14:06Z")
It isn't impossible. You dynamically set the drop-down options by passing in a message containing the options you want, just as @dceejay says.
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### Author:  [@danielo515](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/danielo515)
#### Post date: [30 January 2021 19:23 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/add-global-options-dynamically-to-ui-dropdown/7923/9 "2021-01-30T19:23:16Z")
Sorry, I got confused about the question.
Seems this is about the dropdown on the UI. I was talking about displaying a dynamic a list of elements on a subflow env variable using a dropdown