Dynamic group creation

Dashboard
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I have five xiaomi environment devices each with three sensors (supplying temp, humidity, pressure, and a battery state). I had to implement a group (card?) for each one of them. this makes a 'lot' of work if I need to change anything.

I have just noticed that subflows create a separate instance of each referenced ui node when called, but they are all created on the same tab/group. Is there any way I could dynamically create a group for each sensor? Then I'd need to instruct the subflow to use a newly created group each time it is called. Could the ui_control node be used for this? I ask because I just used some example code using ui_control to show and hide groups.
thxthe
gary

(sorry if this doesnt make sense, I have a fever and I am really tired)

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We don't yet have a solution for this, but if we can work out the how, it would be incredibly valuable.

@Steve-Mcl is also v interested in this

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Are you using node-red-dashboard (the original node red dashboard) or @flowfuse/node-red-dashboard, also known as dashboard 2?

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I'm using the original. Sounds like I should investigate Dashboard 2!

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A quick experiment with dashboard-2 shows it creates a unique ui item for each time a subflow is called, but they are created on one group. A more detailed experiment will require some reading!

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You can configure your subflow to have an option whereby you define which group it belongs to: Subflows | Node-RED Dashboard 2.0

This will mean you can instance your subflow as many times as you like, whilst placing them in different groups too.

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Sounds just right! I'll look into it