Custom node, dynamic editor by ajax

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Hello, everyone,
I'd like to create a custom node, with dynamic editor, which changes it's form controls (like dropdown options) with ajax inside. Is it possible to implement within oneditprepare? Or should I use ui dashboard instead?

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I go through google and find something very approximate here, still unsure of the limit of node editor

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Your oneditprepare function can contain whatever javascript you need in order to build the edit dialog. We include jQuery as the utility library of choice.

A lot of the core nodes are examples of building the edit dialogs dynamically - such as the Switch and Change nodes - although none use ajax.

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Thanks for your quick response. Sorry if I didn't tell the question clearly.

What I want to implement is like a multi-select form control, which is more dynamic than config properties of subflow. Let's call it a configuable dataset.

  • When editing the node, I could change some form control (let's say filter fields), and request data api to populate results for multiple selection.

  • The selected results could be passed out on input msg.

This seems to be easy with website client. I don't know if it is suitable or possible to implement in a custom node.

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After more searching, I found a solution by you earlier which seems to be exactly I want..

Let's make it clear.. the editor dialog is just same with a running web client, and can do whatever I want with a remote server.. right?

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