Dashboard 2: Show/hide group by group name not working?

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Hello:

When using ui-control to show/hide groups, if I use the group name, it doesn't work and I see and error message in NR logs -

Sep 17:55:45 - [error] [ui-control:Show/hide Lux Events] Error: No group found with id or name 'Indoor Lux Events'

4 Sep 17:55:54 - [error] [ui-control:Show/hide Lux Events] Error: No group found with id or name 'Indoor Lux Events'

However, if I use the group ID (found it after exporting the flow and searching for ui-group), it works.

I had converted another flow using the Flowfuse migration service to DB2 and it does work there. I then exported the “migrated” flow and used this ( DB2: Duplicate/Copy ui-pages with all widgets? - #12 by rakgupta ) to “duplicate” the flow and everything but the show/hide is working. I even deleted the “converted” groups and created new ones but the show/hide does not work.

Any idea on what could be happening? Not sure if this is a bug or something in the “conversion” process that I used (if the latter, then I need to put a caveat out on that thread). Thanks for your help.

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I have noticed this too. If you add ui-control node existing groups and widgets are recognised. But nodes/groups added after this will never be found

My solution was to delete the ui-control node, re-add it and deploy. Then everything seems to work ok

I would say this is a bug with ui-control

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I think that if you just restart node-red that will fix it. But yes, I would say that is a bug. Please report it on the dashboard issues page.

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I had tried that (I think) - but it had not worked. Will try recreating it and then create an issue.

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Make sure you refresh the dashboard browser window too.

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Turns out that my group name had an extra space in it. I should have looked at that more closely since I was getting an error on only one of the two groups on show/hide. Sorry for wasting your time - it’s the obvious things that get missed :man_facepalming:t2: