# Dashboard ui not working
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/dashboard-ui-not-working/2838
**Category:** Dashboard
**Created:** [4 September 2018 14:18 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/dashboard-ui-not-working/2838 "2018-09-04T14:18:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@Dayond](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Dayond)
#### Post date: [4 September 2018 14:18 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/dashboard-ui-not-working/2838/1 "2018-09-04T14:18:00Z")
hi there !
I have just installed node red and I wanted to try to make it work.
I perfectly started it and I tried to build up something.
Now the problem is when I'm trying to display the result in the dashboard in the browser using this link
' **localhost:1880/ui/**' I got this message back: ' _ **Welcome to the Node-RED Dashboard** _
_ **Please add some UI nodes to your flow and redeploy** _ '.
I don't really understand what's going wrong with it.
can someone help me please ?
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### Author:  [@kebebs](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/kebebs)
#### Post date: [4 September 2018 14:24 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/dashboard-ui-not-working/2838/2 "2018-09-04T14:24:58Z")
It might be because you havent used any of the dashboard node. Try creating an inject node and wiring it to a dashboard text node and then deploying the flows, close the ui page and try it again
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### Author:  [@Dayond](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Dayond)
#### Post date: [4 September 2018 14:39 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/dashboard-ui-not-working/2838/3 "2018-09-04T14:39:55Z")
I did it, but nothing works out
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### Author:  [@Colin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Colin)
#### Post date: [4 September 2018 16:10 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/dashboard-ui-not-working/2838/4 "2018-09-04T16:10:23Z")
Did you make sure to force a full refresh the page in the browser (often Ctrl+F5 but may depend on OS and browser)
If still no joy then restart node red and, in a terminal run `node-red-log`. Post the results here. That should show useful information about your system.
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### Author:  [@asdfghjkl](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/asdfghjkl)
#### Post date: [17 January 2019 20:07 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/dashboard-ui-not-working/2838/5 "2019-01-17T20:07:06Z")
This issue came up for me when flows would not fully deploy.
I rebuilt a new machine, and started to rebuild node red flows one at a time.
But nothing in the dashboard works unless all flows have all their definitions. Missing nodes are shown dashed and will prevent deployment.
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### Author:  [@Steve-Mcl](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Steve-Mcl)
#### Post date: [25 January 2019 10:59 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/dashboard-ui-not-working/2838/6 "2019-01-25T10:59:30Z")
> [@Dayond](#):
>
> _ **Welcome to the Node-RED Dashboard** _
> _ **Please add some UI nodes to your flow and redeploy** _
I have seen this with Internet Explorer - I suspect you are using Internet Explorer?
In fact, I'm seeing it now with dashboard version 2.13.0 on Node Red 19.5 and node-red 20 Beta3 (Corporate Environment - still forcing us to use IE11).
I haven't had time to debug this but from the errors in console, i suspect some functions that IE11 doesn't support are the issue? maybe?
Two errors I see are ...
- Expected Identifier - File: app.min.js, Line: 552, Column: 276
- Object doesn't support property or method 'isNaN' at Anonymous function ([http://ipaddress:1880/ui/js/app.min.js:553](http://ipaddress:1880/ui/js/app.min.js:553)
Though these may be red herrings. Pictures are worth a thousand words 🙂
**Chrome...**
**IE11...**
Now as much as I despise the POS that IE11 is, we must (for now) support it ☹
Can anyone help resolve this?
Cheers.
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### Author:  [@Steve-Mcl](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Steve-Mcl)
#### Post date: [25 January 2019 12:15 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/dashboard-ui-not-working/2838/7 "2019-01-25T12:15:20Z")
Forgot to mention...
I'm fairly certain this happens when IE is in default mode
Try this...
- Open F12 (Press F12)
- Select the Document Emulation Mode drop down (top right hand side of "F12 Developer Tools")
Pretty Sure by default IE11 is set for Document Mode 5 (AKA as pile of crap MS attempted Web Browser Lock-in mode)
\*Set this to mode 11 (or Edge if its available) - Dashboard will now work.
I suppose a new line of question would be - is there a way to have the Dashboard web instruct the document mode to IE?
Something like this...
[https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff955275(v=vs.85).aspx](https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff955275(v=vs.85).aspx)
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### Author:  [@dceejay](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/dceejay)
#### Post date: [25 January 2019 12:49 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/dashboard-ui-not-working/2838/8 "2019-01-25T12:49:19Z")
Interesting... I guess we could always add
```
```
If you think it would help ? Though as it's just in the `dist/index.html` it should be easy enough for you to add locally to test for us 🙂
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### Author:  [@Steve-Mcl](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Steve-Mcl)
#### Post date: [25 January 2019 16:34 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/dashboard-ui-not-working/2838/9 "2019-01-25T16:34:29Z")
I open the dashboard on an older machine with IE11 - one I have never used for node-red.
The dashboard did not display.
I added ...
```auto
```
... to `dist/index.html`
Hard refreshed browser (CTRL+F5)
Tada - worked.
NOTE: I cant be 100% certain it wouldnt have worked without this as now I cant get it to fail.
I suppose its no harm in adding the meta tag.
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### Author:  [@dceejay](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/dceejay)
#### Post date: [25 January 2019 17:16 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/dashboard-ui-not-working/2838/10 "2019-01-25T17:16:57Z")
Thanks for letting me know... will do so.
(you may be able to set it to ..."IE=6" or something ancient to force it bad again... then forwards again to double check..)