# Dashboard 2 - ui-link node
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/dashboard-2-ui-link-node/87990
**Category:** Dashboard
**Tags:** dashboard-2
**Created:** [15 May 2024 18:38 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/dashboard-2-ui-link-node/87990 "2024-05-15T18:38:33Z")
**Posts on this page:** 18
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### Author:  [@Paul-Reed](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Paul-Reed)
#### Post date: [15 May 2024 18:38 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/dashboard-2-ui-link-node/87990/1 "2024-05-15T18:38:33Z")
Just been reading about the recently added [ui-link node](https://dashboard.flowfuse.com/nodes/config/ui-link.html), and haven't a clue what it does ๐ฒ
Anyone any ideas of what this would be used for, and maybe a scenario?
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### Author:  [@Sean-McG](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Sean-McG)
#### Post date: [15 May 2024 18:59 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/dashboard-2-ui-link-node/87990/2 "2024-05-15T18:59:44Z")
As far as I can see it seems the same as the dashboard 1 version.
It displays an icon, which opens a link to the specified URL.
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### Author:  [@Paul-Reed](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Paul-Reed)
#### Post date: [15 May 2024 19:05 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/dashboard-2-ui-link-node/87990/3 "2024-05-15T19:05:33Z")
> [@Sean-McG](#):
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> As far as I can see it seems the same as the dashboard 1 version.
I haven't used dashboard 1 for a number of years so no idea.
> [@Paul-Reed](#):
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> Anyone any ideas of what this would be used for, and maybe a scenario?
Any ideas?
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### Author:  [@arturv2000](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/arturv2000)
#### Post date: [15 May 2024 19:11 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/dashboard-2-ui-link-node/87990/4 "2024-05-15T19:11:59Z")
Check the video on the github PR
[https://github.com/FlowFuse/node-red-dashboard/pull/845](https://github.com/FlowFuse/node-red-dashboard/pull/845)
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### Author:  [@Sean-McG](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Sean-McG)
#### Post date: [15 May 2024 19:15 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/dashboard-2-ui-link-node/87990/5 "2024-05-15T19:15:02Z")
It literally just navigates to the link, e.g. it could take you to the google search page or a Grafana dashboard etc.
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### Author:  [@Paul-Reed](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Paul-Reed)
#### Post date: [15 May 2024 19:22 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/dashboard-2-ui-link-node/87990/6 "2024-05-15T19:22:32Z")
> [@Sean-McG](#):
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> e.g. it could take you to the google search page or a Grafana dashboard
Isn't it just url's relative to the node-RED base url?
It errors with full url's
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### Author:  [@Sean-McG](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Sean-McG)
#### Post date: [15 May 2024 19:26 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/dashboard-2-ui-link-node/87990/7 "2024-05-15T19:26:35Z")
I don't have dashboard 2 installed, but that's how it works in D1.
If you use the iframe option then some sites do not allow embedding, try with new tab.
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### Author:  [@Paul-Reed](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Paul-Reed)
#### Post date: [15 May 2024 19:32 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/dashboard-2-ui-link-node/87990/8 "2024-05-15T19:32:35Z")
> [@Sean-McG](#):
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> e.g. it could take you to the google search page
In fact now my dashboard does not even load now, all I did was add [https://www.bbc.co.uk/](https://www.bbc.co.uk/) to a ui-link, deployed which did not work, so I deleted the ui-link from the sidebar, deployed and voila - no dashboard...
```auto
15 May 19:23:48 - [info] Updated flows
15 May 19:23:48 - [info] Starting modified nodes
15 May 19:23:48 - [warn] [ui-base:Dashboard] Theme 'undefined' specified in page '9a7620fff0058760' does not exist
15 May 19:23:48 - [info] Started modified nodes
15 May 19:24:24 - [info] [ui-base:Dashboard] Disconnected PV0lJbrXf4xw0x8oAAAm due to transport close
15 May 19:24:42 - [info] [ui-base:Dashboard] Disconnected qUC2nVfKQ_cVS64AAAAo due to transport close
```
**EDIT** - a search for `9a7620fff0058760` shows the ui-link page.
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### Author:  [@Sean-McG](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Sean-McG)
#### Post date: [15 May 2024 19:33 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/dashboard-2-ui-link-node/87990/9 "2024-05-15T19:33:45Z")
Over and out ๐
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### Author:  [@Paul-Reed](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Paul-Reed)
#### Post date: [15 May 2024 19:42 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/dashboard-2-ui-link-node/87990/10 "2024-05-15T19:42:13Z")
@Sean-McG Cheers mate ๐
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Found it, despite removing the link-ui correctly from the sidebar, it left it's config file behind.
Deleting it, and rebooting sorted it.
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### Author:  [@Colin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Colin)
#### Post date: [15 May 2024 19:42 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/dashboard-2-ui-link-node/87990/11 "2024-05-15T19:42:35Z")
> [@Paul-Reed](#):
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> voila - no dashboard...
I think that is worthy of an issue submission.
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### Author:  [@Paul-Reed](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Paul-Reed)
#### Post date: [15 May 2024 19:57 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/dashboard-2-ui-link-node/87990/13 "2024-05-15T19:57:11Z")
I've repeated the process a further twice, and it does not appear repeatable.
So no idea what went wrong...
The ui-link does load external url's OK (but of course it navigates away from node-RED in doing so).
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### Author:  [@Colin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Colin)
#### Post date: [15 May 2024 20:15 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/dashboard-2-ui-link-node/87990/14 "2024-05-15T20:15:02Z")
> [@Paul-Reed](#):
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> The ui-link does load external url's OK
What did you put in the url? It didn't work for me, it appended it to the dashboard url.
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### Author:  [@Colin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Colin)
#### Post date: [15 May 2024 20:21 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/dashboard-2-ui-link-node/87990/15 "2024-05-15T20:21:02Z")
OK, I worked it out. If you put a full url such as [https://www.google.com](https://www.google.com) then it works.
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### Author:  [@Paul-Reed](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Paul-Reed)
#### Post date: [15 May 2024 22:36 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/dashboard-2-ui-link-node/87990/16 "2024-05-15T22:36:00Z")
@joepavitt - Apart from the video link kindly re-posted by @arturv2000 for the Worldmap example, I'm not seeing anything useful for this addition, and no other user has any suggestions either.
What am I missing?
Are there any usage examples, to justify this being a useful core addition?
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### Author:  [@joepavitt](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/joepavitt)
#### Post date: [16 May 2024 04:34 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/dashboard-2-ui-link-node/87990/17 "2024-05-16T04:34:12Z")
> [@Paul-Reed](#):
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> It errors with full url's
It shouldn't... what URL did you try?
> [@Paul-Reed](#):
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> What am I missing?
> Are there any usage examples, to justify this being a useful core addition?
Please do remember that the Discourse forum represent a small portion of Node-RED users. I'd had multiple people ask me for this over the past 12 months or so. It was also a core node in Dashboard 1.0 too, so helps with our mission of feature parity there.
Please do raise any issues around bugs you find with it.
An example from a user perspective is linking off to older Dashboars 1.0's to assist with migration, where D1.0 can have link nodes back again.
From a commercial perspective, it provides links to documentation, support or other tools that relate to the Dashboard-at-hand
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### Author:  [@Paul-Reed](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Paul-Reed)
#### Post date: [16 May 2024 08:44 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/dashboard-2-ui-link-node/87990/18 "2024-05-16T08:44:34Z")
> [@joepavitt](#):
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> what URL did you try?
As I said above...
> [@Paul-Reed](#):
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> all I did was add [https://www.bbc.co.uk/](https://www.bbc.co.uk/) to a ui-link
I've raised an issue with more information - [ui-link - theme undefined ยท Issue #868 ยท FlowFuse/node-red-dashboard ยท GitHub](https://github.com/FlowFuse/node-red-dashboard/issues/868)
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### Author:  [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [15 June 2024 08:45 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/dashboard-2-ui-link-node/87990/19 "2024-06-15T08:45:25Z")
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