# Exporting a previous Dashboard to a new Install - HELP needed
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/exporting-a-previous-dashboard-to-a-new-install-help-needed/69461
**Category:** Dashboard
**Created:** [23 October 2022 13:02 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/exporting-a-previous-dashboard-to-a-new-install-help-needed/69461 "2022-10-23T13:02:23Z")
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### Author:  [@championc](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/championc)
#### Post date: [23 October 2022 13:02 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/exporting-a-previous-dashboard-to-a-new-install-help-needed/69461/1 "2022-10-23T13:02:23Z")
I exported all flows, and Deployed on my new install. But my dashboard is totally empty. How can I get back my original dashboard ?
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### Author:  [@jodelkoenig](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/jodelkoenig)
#### Post date: [23 October 2022 13:04 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/exporting-a-previous-dashboard-to-a-new-install-help-needed/69461/2 "2022-10-23T13:04:03Z")
Have you reinstalled the dashboard node?
EDIT: And all other nodes of your former installation, of course 🙂
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### Author:  [@Colin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Colin)
#### Post date: [23 October 2022 13:20 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/exporting-a-previous-dashboard-to-a-new-install-help-needed/69461/3 "2022-10-23T13:20:52Z")
What do you mean by totally empty? No widgets or no background or what?
Are your flows present in the editor? Can you see the dashboard nodes there?
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### Author:  [@championc](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/championc)
#### Post date: [23 October 2022 18:05 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/exporting-a-previous-dashboard-to-a-new-install-help-needed/69461/4 "2022-10-23T18:05:32Z")
I have the message "Welcome to the Node-RED Dashboard Please add some UI nodes to your flow and redeploy". I have about 15 different flows and have 5 pages of Dashboards
If I click on any dashboard type nodes (like a TEXT, GAUGE or LEVEL) they all have their Dashboard Groups, but yet the UI Dashboard shows nothing at all
Within Dashboard Layout, all Tabs & Links are all present, and my original colours are within the Theme section. But within Tabs & Links, if I click on Layout to Edit the layout, it's all blank
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### Author:  [@Colin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Colin)
#### Post date: [23 October 2022 19:02 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/exporting-a-previous-dashboard-to-a-new-install-help-needed/69461/5 "2022-10-23T19:02:08Z")
Stop node red and start it again in a terminal and copy/paste the startup log here. Possibly it will give us some clues about what is going on.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [22 November 2022 19:02 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/exporting-a-previous-dashboard-to-a-new-install-help-needed/69461/6 "2022-11-22T19:02:25Z")
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