# Enable / Disable nodes from right click context menu

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/enable-disable-nodes-from-right-click-context-menu/70360>\
**Category:** Feature Requests\
**Created:** [9 November 2022 21:43 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/enable-disable-nodes-from-right-click-context-menu/70360 "2022-11-09T21:43:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![poldim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/aca169/32.png) [@poldim](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/poldim)\
**Post date:** [9 November 2022 21:43 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/enable-disable-nodes-from-right-click-context-menu/70360/1 "2022-11-09T21:43:45Z")

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It would be great to have this more readily available. It would be very useful for developing/testing flows.

Right click would include a context menu for disabling or enabling an individual, selection, or group of nodes.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/3X/4/a/4a2a1e88927ce85ac3c05d599e63a82cb15213d1.png)

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**Author:** ![Paul-Reed](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/paul-reed/32/66906_2.png) [@Paul-Reed](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Paul-Reed)\
**Post date:** [9 November 2022 21:50 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/enable-disable-nodes-from-right-click-context-menu/70360/2 "2022-11-09T21:50:44Z")

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It's already quick and easy to enable/disable nodes by using the filter in actions...  
...or using ctrl-8 as a shortcut.

![disable](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/3X/b/9/b973759d64cf4b257f0f70e29bbbcb56479200a9.gif)

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**Author:** ![knolleary](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/knolleary/32/3_2.png) [@knolleary](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/knolleary)\
**Post date:** [9 November 2022 22:11 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/enable-disable-nodes-from-right-click-context-menu/70360/3 "2022-11-09T22:11:50Z")

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Hi @poldim

I've been making a number of improvements to the right-click context menu for 3.1 - primarily around actions on the flows themselves: [Improve UX around hiding flows via context menu by knolleary · Pull Request #3930 · node-red/node-red · GitHub](https://github.com/node-red/node-red/pull/3930)

I have work in progress to add more context-menu options for groups.

Adding enable/disable options for nodes would fit in with this work.

So stay tuned for 3.1.

Nick

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/1X/d073cd938eafa2e558d7c2cd59003b3ef4963033.png) [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [8 January 2023 22:12 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/enable-disable-nodes-from-right-click-context-menu/70360/4 "2023-01-08T22:12:23Z")

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