I am using node-red-contrib-mdashboard (this is not the standard Node-RED dashboard !)
Problem:
I want to clear my text input by clicking on a button that is sending an empty string as payload to this text input node. This is not working: the text input remains unchanged.
Note that
- it is working when using the standard dashboard (node-red-contrib-dashboard).
- it is working when sending a non-empty string as payload - in that case it is properly showing the non-empty string in the text input node.
Here below the flow used to demonstrate that it is NOT working for mdashboard and that it is working for dashboard.
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