Cannot pass any URL parameters to @flowfuse/node-red-dashboard 1.8.1

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I'm working on a pet project of mine and I ran into a major issue with the new dashboard.

Appending parameters to a dashboard URL on node red 2.2.2 and node-red-dashboard 3.1.6 works. However, passing parameters like

  • /dashboard/home?foo=bar&dope=true or
  • /dashboard/home#foo=bar&dope=true or
  • /dashboard/home#?foo=bar&dope=true or
  • /dashboard/home#0?foo=bar&dope=true

to @flowfuse/node-red-dashboard 1.8.1 on node red 3.1.9 fails due to a forced redirect. I cannot pass any parameters into any dashboard URL and use them to query other, external services.

Furthermore I noticed that sending:

msg.payload = {
    page:'Stat details',
    query: {
        profileId: msg.profileId
    }
}
return msg;

from a function node to ui-control node does completely and altogether ignore the query parameter that is, from what I understand from the documentation, the way of programmatically navigating the app and passing parameters along. Here's the output of a ui-event node after navigating to any of the above listed URLs.

{
    "topic": "$pageview",
    "payload": {
        "page": {
            "id": "52aed704e26d62f7",
            "name": "Home",
            "ui": "e20e1ec3320ffde3",
            "path": "/home",
            "icon": "home",
            "layout": "grid",
            "theme": "7bfc8dfc9cc70794",
            "order": -1,
            "className": "",
            "visible": true,
            "disabled": false,
            "route": {
                "path": "/dashboard/home",
                "name": "Page:Home"
            },
            "_groups": ["9150edd85865484c"]
        }
    },
    "_client": {
        "socketId": "Xu9IqJt67rUkUB4zAABz"
    },
    "_msgid": "236f4d9e4b877fb1"
}

Running the current docker image nodered/node-red:latest as of four hours ago.

Maybe I did not read the documentation attentively enough, maybe I did not configure something correctly or maybe I am just temporarily brain dead.

In any case, I'd appreciate some help preserving my sanity and move on with my pet project.

Thanks for helping me out!

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Hi! Sorry for the inconvenience here, I put in a fix for this yesterday: Support query params in UI Event & UI Control by joepavitt · Pull Request #830 · FlowFuse/node-red-dashboard · GitHub - it auto-updates our docs, but the release hasn't quite yet been cut. Was planned for today, but trying to squeeze a couple of more pieces in!

I'm just waiting on a couple more PRs to go in for a rounded release - hoping early next week and it'll be published.

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Oh man.... I thought I'm going crazy... Thanks for clarifying.

I'll keep an eye on the docker containers (as I run a lot of instances of node red for various things).

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It's not going to need a docker-container update, it'll just update in Node-RED Palette Manager once released, you'll just need to click "update".

We normally get a quick turnaround on publishing to release, just been a bit of a crazy day :smile:

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Worry not, you've already helped by telling me that I am not insane.

Take your time and thanks for this contributing to this awesome software :smile::+1:

6

Upgraded and everything works. Thank you very much :heart:

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