Hey everyone, In our team we’re working with Jambonz, and we rely on multiple flow tabs across various instances. Sometimes, when importing flows or using copy/paste, I’ve noticed that link in and link out nodes end up connected across tabs. Which isn't always obvious in the editor. Right now, the…

Hi and welcome to the forums. You can easily see where a link node is connected by clicking it. Not selected... [image] Selected... [image] You can see that the top to are linked while the bottom one is linked to a node on an other tab.

Hi MyRandomThoughts, Yes, I know that you can see it when clicking on it, but I want to prevent it to happend because there are colleagues that can make this mistake. I've created a PR for this Added support for cross tab link detection by 78wesley · Pull Request #45 · node-red/nrlint · GitHub .

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Feature Request: nrlint Detect Link Nodes Connected Across Flow Tabs

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Feature Request: nrlint Detect Link Nodes Connected Across Flow Tabs

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