# Adding new nodes to the node-red-contrib-mdashboard

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/adding-new-nodes-to-the-node-red-contrib-mdashboard/19366>\
**Category:** Dashboard\
**Created:** [19 December 2019 22:11 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/adding-new-nodes-to-the-node-red-contrib-mdashboard/19366 "2019-12-19T22:11:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![krzydec](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a5b964/32.png) [@krzydec](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/krzydec)\
**Post date:** [19 December 2019 22:11 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/adding-new-nodes-to-the-node-red-contrib-mdashboard/19366/1 "2019-12-19T22:11:14Z")

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Hello

Is it possible to add a new nodes to the node-red-contrib-mdashboard?  
I'm especially interested with adding the node-red-contrib-ui-level.

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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:** [19 December 2019 22:19 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/adding-new-nodes-to-the-node-red-contrib-mdashboard/19366/2 "2019-12-19T22:19:02Z")

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no idea - it is a fork of the main node-red-dashboard - you will need to ask the author directly. (You can't install both at the same time)

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**Author:** ![krzydec](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a5b964/32.png) [@krzydec](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/krzydec)\
**Post date:** [19 December 2019 22:36 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/adding-new-nodes-to-the-node-red-contrib-mdashboard/19366/3 "2019-12-19T22:36:55Z")

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Hello.

Thank you for the response.

I already asked author directly, but I don't know if I will get an answer.

You can have a booth dashboards installed at the same time  
You will get a second dashboard tab, and config node.  
To access the second dashboard you point your browser to "mui" instead of "ui" or change the configuration in settings.js.

The dashboard works nice for multi users, I only tested for 2 so far;-).  
I'm setting web-socket of the requestor as a variable, locking incoming messages until task is completed and send info back to the requestor. I'm using it to visualise data from SQL query.

I know this is not a "proper" way of doing this, but it works for me and I don't have enough programming skills to do it properly.

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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:** [19 December 2019 22:43 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/adding-new-nodes-to-the-node-red-contrib-mdashboard/19366/4 "2019-12-19T22:43:55Z")

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Ah good - he must have de-conflicted them - that is good to know.  
(but yes - is up to him to add support for other widgets)

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**Author:** ![zenofmud](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/zenofmud/32/316_2.png) [@zenofmud](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/zenofmud)\
**Post date:** [19 December 2019 22:52 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/adding-new-nodes-to-the-node-red-contrib-mdashboard/19366/5 "2019-12-19T22:52:48Z")

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Hmmm last update was 11 months ago...

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**Author:** ![krzydec](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a5b964/32.png) [@krzydec](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/krzydec)\
**Post date:** [19 December 2019 22:56 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/adding-new-nodes-to-the-node-red-contrib-mdashboard/19366/6 "2019-12-19T22:56:58Z")

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Yes, that's why I post asking for help over here . If there was no update for that long author may abandon the project and may not get back to me.

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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:** [19 December 2019 22:58 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/adding-new-nodes-to-the-node-red-contrib-mdashboard/19366/7 "2019-12-19T22:58:27Z")

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In which case the answer to your original question is no  
(unless you fork his node and update it and add the required functionality...)

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**Author:** ![krzydec](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a5b964/32.png) [@krzydec](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/krzydec)\
**Post date:** [19 December 2019 23:03 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/adding-new-nodes-to-the-node-red-contrib-mdashboard/19366/8 "2019-12-19T23:03:38Z")

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I will wait for the response whilst trying to do it myself.  
I started with comparing what is different between the "original" dashboard and the mdashboard.

I will appreciate any hints and directions.