hello guys, my "program" creates a new file with date and time in its name (the file contains measured data, not important for my problem). Now I want to download the newest file via a download button. With following "tutorial" I can download the newest file which is fine so far (see reply post for…

ok, so I have modified it to download the file specified by your global variable. I changed the endpoint to /report1 since there is no need for it to be variable & to set the content-disposition header filename (see the function node). Test it in a browser by accessing http://localhost:1880/report…

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