# Dashboard 2, ui-template in subflow, accessing subflow properties
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/dashboard-2-ui-template-in-subflow-accessing-subflow-properties/86714
**Category:** Dashboard
**Tags:** dashboard-2
**Created:** [24 March 2024 12:16 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/dashboard-2-ui-template-in-subflow-accessing-subflow-properties/86714 "2024-03-24T12:16:49Z")
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### Author:  [@Colin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Colin)
#### Post date: [24 March 2024 12:16 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/dashboard-2-ui-template-in-subflow-accessing-subflow-properties/86714/1 "2024-03-24T12:16:49Z")
I am experimenting with the new ability to include dashboard 2 widgets in a subflow.
Am I correct in thinking that, if I have a ui-template in a subflow, that, in order to access the subflow properties inside the template, I have to pick them up and add those properties to a message and send them to the template?
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### Author:  [@joepavitt](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/joepavitt)
#### Post date: [24 March 2024 12:33 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/dashboard-2-ui-template-in-subflow-accessing-subflow-properties/86714/2 "2024-03-24T12:33:03Z")
You're absolutely right Colin for the current state of the art.
I do have [UI Template: Custom Properties · Issue #665 · FlowFuse/node-red-dashboard · GitHub](https://github.com/FlowFuse/node-red-dashboard/issues/665) open to improve this experience
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### Author:  [@Colin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Colin)
#### Post date: [24 March 2024 13:13 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/dashboard-2-ui-template-in-subflow-accessing-subflow-properties/86714/3 "2024-03-24T13:13:35Z")
OK, thanks.
To get round this, in the subflow, I am feeding the input messages through a function that copies the properties into `msg._data` then passes the message to the template. That works ok apart from the problem that if I change the property values and do a partial deploy, then refresh the dashboard browser, the template gets sent the previous message, which still includes the old data. It is not until a new message is sent to the subflow that the new data is picked up. I can't see any solution to this problem at the moment other than to add a repeater node so that messages into the subflow are resent every few seconds.
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### Author:  [@Colin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Colin)
#### Post date: [24 March 2024 13:25 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/dashboard-2-ui-template-in-subflow-accessing-subflow-properties/86714/4 "2024-03-24T13:25:28Z")
I have realised there is a better way. An inject node triggered to fire at startup re-triggers if the subflow parameters are changed, so that can be used to send the template an initial message with the properties,
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### Author:  [@Colin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Colin)
#### Post date: [24 March 2024 13:31 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/dashboard-2-ui-template-in-subflow-accessing-subflow-properties/86714/5 "2024-03-24T13:31:24Z")
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### Author:  [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [23 April 2024 13:31 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/dashboard-2-ui-template-in-subflow-accessing-subflow-properties/86714/6 "2024-04-23T13:31:53Z")
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