# Dashboard 2 table
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/dashboard-2-table/99190
**Category:** General
**Tags:** dashboard-2
**Created:** [27 September 2025 22:28 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/dashboard-2-table/99190 "2025-09-27T22:28:51Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@Filip\_Top](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Filip_Top)
#### Post date: [27 September 2025 22:28 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/dashboard-2-table/99190/1 "2025-09-27T22:28:51Z")
I try to understand how to work with the dashboard 2 table node, but it is acting strange ☹
I added a simple array as in examples online to it, and you can scroll them line by line, what is not very usefull. But if I set the Max Rows by example to 5 I see no data anymore.
This sounds so stupid, adn should be so simple ☹
Thanks for any help on this.
Best regards
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### Author:  [@xx\_Nexus\_xx](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/xx_Nexus_xx)
#### Post date: [28 September 2025 00:53 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/dashboard-2-table/99190/2 "2025-09-28T00:53:52Z")
pls share your code and maybe picture
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### Author:  [@Colin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Colin)
#### Post date: [28 September 2025 06:55 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/dashboard-2-table/99190/3 "2025-09-28T06:55:17Z")
That sounds like this issue. [Table Node format issue · Issue #1732 · FlowFuse/node-red-dashboard · GitHub](https://github.com/FlowFuse/node-red-dashboard/issues/1732)
There is a workaround there, or set the table to auto size.
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### Author:  [@Filip\_Top](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Filip_Top)
#### Post date: [29 September 2025 08:59 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/dashboard-2-table/99190/4 "2025-09-29T08:59:32Z")
Thank Colin, it works now.
One other question, is it best practice using the table node or is it better to use the v-table? Or are there other, better alternatives?
I want to build some simple data tables, would prefer to be able to color some rows depending on the value and if possible have some hyperlinks in them (open another table in node red).
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### Author:  [@Colin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Colin)
#### Post date: [29 September 2025 09:18 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/dashboard-2-table/99190/5 "2025-09-29T09:18:58Z")
> [@Filip\_Top](#):
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> is it best practice using the table node or is it better to use the v-table?
There is no best practice. If the table widget works for you then use that, if not then you may need to use an alternative.
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### Author:  [@omrid](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/omrid)
#### Post date: [29 September 2025 15:24 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/dashboard-2-table/99190/6 "2025-09-29T15:24:53Z")
You can consider using the `@omrid01/node-red-dashboard-2-table-tabulator` table node.It is stable and feature-rich.
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### Author:  [@Filip\_Top](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Filip_Top)
#### Post date: [29 September 2025 16:40 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/dashboard-2-table/99190/7 "2025-09-29T16:40:12Z")
Thank you Omrid.
I tried the node with the standard input, but no table is showing. I looked around in the help and with my friend google, but didn't find anything to help me. Also, only examples with fixed data and not with data from the payload.
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### Author:  [@omrid](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/omrid)
#### Post date: [29 September 2025 23:01 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/dashboard-2-table/99190/8 "2025-09-29T23:01:21Z")
Can you share your flow, so that I can see what you are doing wrong.
The node supports both fixed and dynamic (payload) data, but it needs to be set correctly in the msg.
Also, the node includes many examples which you can play with (`import->examples`)
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### Author:  [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [28 December 2025 23:01 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/dashboard-2-table/99190/9 "2025-12-28T23:01:55Z")
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