# Adding link like hidden wires for Status and Catch nodes

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/adding-link-like-hidden-wires-for-status-and-catch-nodes/57424>\
**Category:** Feature Requests\
**Created:** [28 January 2022 20:47 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/adding-link-like-hidden-wires-for-status-and-catch-nodes/57424 "2022-01-28T20:47:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![Trying\_to\_learn](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/trying_to_learn/32/28400_2.png) [@Trying\_to\_learn](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Trying_to_learn)\
**Post date:** [28 January 2022 20:47 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/adding-link-like-hidden-wires-for-status-and-catch-nodes/57424/1 "2022-01-28T20:47:50Z")

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Could you include the option like with the `link` node that when you click on a `catch` or `status` node a dashed line is drawn to the nodes it is monitoring?

Ok, if it is ALL, that would be confusing.

Amendment:  
(option)  
Up to a certain number (set in that node) if less than that number it shows the connections to the nodes being _monitored_.

Alternative:  
An option to only show/list connected nodes.

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**Author:** ![knolleary](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/knolleary/32/3_2.png) [@knolleary](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/knolleary)\
**Post date:** [28 January 2022 20:58 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/adding-link-like-hidden-wires-for-status-and-catch-nodes/57424/2 "2022-01-28T20:58:11Z")

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Thanks for the suggestion. A little bit of feedback - try to summarise the idea in the title of the post. As it is in the Feature Request category, then we already know its a suggestion about something... so having a title related to the idea will help us spot it when looking back through the category in the future.

In terms of your suggestion - this is something we've consider off and on since those nodes were introduced. There are a fair few design considerations to work through on it and it hasn't had a lot of attention. The problem, as you identify yourself, is how noisy that could quickly get.

For example, if you have a single Catch node configured to catch anything on the tab, you end up with wires everywhere - to limit the number of wires would give a false impression as to what it was monitoring.

We also need to think were the wire would leave the 'targeted' node - does it come out of an output, the top/bottom edge or somewhere else - to help distinguish it from regular wires.

But these aren't things I'm asking you to answer - just sharing some of the things that do need thinking through.

Perhaps something we can look at for 3.0.

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**Author:** ![Trying\_to\_learn](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/trying_to_learn/32/28400_2.png) [@Trying\_to\_learn](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Trying_to_learn)\
**Post date:** [28 January 2022 21:00 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/adding-link-like-hidden-wires-for-status-and-catch-nodes/57424/3 "2022-01-28T21:00:46Z")

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Thanks Nick. I just watched your new video on youtube and was prompted to quickly get this idea _in the works_.

WRT the lines from the `catch` `status` and `complete` nodes.  
Only have the lines active when you are clicking on the node.

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**Author:** ![dceejay](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/dceejay/32/38_2.png) [@dceejay](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/dceejay)\
**Post date:** [28 January 2022 21:41 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/adding-link-like-hidden-wires-for-status-and-catch-nodes/57424/4 "2022-01-28T21:41:52Z")

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/1X/d073cd938eafa2e558d7c2cd59003b3ef4963033.png) [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [29 March 2022 21:42 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/adding-link-like-hidden-wires-for-status-and-catch-nodes/57424/5 "2022-03-29T21:42:24Z")

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