Dashboard Text Input Node - Send value on focus leave

[dudleyjosh]

Continuing the discussion from Dashboard Text Input node focus issues:

I just ran into this very same issue (text input node doesn't always send message on focus leave) today... and I have the same issue with trying to re-create it as quoted below.

@OriolFM

I tried, but the problem is that it does not happen every time. If I try to do a simple flow for testing with only one text input node, it works and the value is sent whenever I change focus (click outside the field, for instance).

When I test it on the whole thing, sometimes it will work fine, but mostly doesn't. It is very strange.

[OriolFM]

Glad to know I'm not the only one suffering from this issue. Hopefully someone can help us find why (and how to fix it).

[dudleyjosh]

Here are some screen shots of the dashboard UI that I am having this issue with.

The text input fields boxed in yellow are the ones where I experience this issue. I originally had all of the fields set to a Delay of "0" because nothing needs to be continuously updated as it is being entered. After dealing with the issue, I changed all of the input fields in the "Marking Text" section to the default "300" to ensure they get updated when data is changed/entered. I needed to leave the three fields in the "Marking Parameters" section set to "0" however because as-is I get error messages as the numbers are entered because I am using a "Change node" with JSONata to cast those text fields as numbers after they are typed in (I understand that I can set those input fields to "number" mode but there is a specific reason I have them set to "text input").

As I am writing this up and closely looking at screen shots, I am now thinking the issue as something to do with the message at the bottom of the text input window that states...

Setting Delay to 0 waits for Enter or Tab key, to send input.

I am now thinking this means that it ignores the "Send value on focus leave" checkbox and ONLY sends with an Enter or Tab key press.

I would prefer it not ignore that checkbox and ALSO send on focus leave, but this is my best guess as to why it is behaving this way.

I quickly looked at the code for the ui_text_input node on GitHub and perhaps this line is what drives this behavior?

[OriolFM]

I had all of my text input with delay 0.

My process is that I wait for the field to be complete, then when the focus leaves or I press enter, I update the JSON and push it to a MySQL DB not to lose the data.

Updating every n milliseconds would generate way too many queries and slow down the application.