# Discussion about a new Dashboard

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/discussion-about-a-new-dashboard/51119>\
**Category:** Dashboard\
**Created:** [16 September 2021 18:31 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/discussion-about-a-new-dashboard/51119 "2021-09-16T18:31:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![tve](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/tve/32/59475_2.png) [@tve](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/tve)\
**Post date:** [18 February 2022 01:03 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/discussion-about-a-new-dashboard/51119/180 "2022-02-18T01:03:25Z")

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> [@craigcurtin](#):
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> Could you show us an example of a current NR dashboard embedded in an iframe with some of your dashboard also ? i.e. how seamless is it and is that a way forward ?

Here's a tab from my standard NR dashboard:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/3X/a/9/a959ffdaed58797701dcc07cc3cca3f12d808fdc.png)

Here's a tab from my FlexDash dashboard (same NR server), these are all FlexDash widgets:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/3X/a/5/a59a74950277e0f67e0c28a2f4bb1f7e030f466f.png)

Here's the first tab (standard NR) as iframe in FlexDash:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/3X/0/4/046fcd794a42c4e2bca0a5998786746c45cbda4a.png)

I still use the standard NR dashboard version hence I've kept the green top nav bar. Once I switch completely to FD I'll drop the green top-nav 'cause it's redundant with FD's tab nav.

And this is the configuration for that iframe tab in FD:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/3X/2/5/258294e7ec4b0dc7e3c154cca184452d211c4304.png)

- use a tree as icon ("orchard"...)
- no text title, i.e. icon only
- iframe tab type
- iframe slot A (has to do with avoiding to reload the iframe when switching tabs)
- URL for standard dashboard tab to put in iframe

> [@craigcurtin](#):
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> Not sure how we get some momentum here to get a community maintained dashboard - Julian seems that farthest along - but his stuff is pretty daunting and is all a build it from scratch thing.

UIBuilder is a different thing. It's much lower level, open to any UI framework/toolkit, DYI type of stuff. FlexDash is Vue+Vuetify with a specific back-end to front-end message model, point-and-click configuration, no coding required. One is not better than the other, they serve different purposes/use-cases.

For me the big to-do on the FlexDash side is to take one of the std dashboard UI nodes and turn it into a FD equivalent node. E.g. "replace your std UI button node with this FD button node". The hard part is reverse-engineering how the std UI button node works and while I'm interested in doing that as a sample for one node, I don't think I will be able to muster the energy to go through all the UI nodes and do the same...

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