# Filtering with the switch node
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/filtering-with-the-switch-node/64229
**Category:** General
**Tags:** node-red-dashboard
**Created:** [22 June 2022 08:28 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/filtering-with-the-switch-node/64229 "2022-06-22T08:28:11Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@noob69](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/noob69)
#### Post date: [22 June 2022 08:28 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/filtering-with-the-switch-node/64229/1 "2022-06-22T08:28:12Z")
Hi, I need to filter out according to it's msg.ocpp.command property. Can I use switch node for that? I tried with the switch node already but it passing the message through 1st outlet even the conditon is not satisfied? What is causing this behaviour?
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### Author:  [@edje11](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/edje11)
#### Post date: [22 June 2022 08:53 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/filtering-with-the-switch-node/64229/2 "2022-06-22T08:53:13Z")
Can you use use the message that's feed in this node?
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### Author:  [@Colin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Colin)
#### Post date: [22 June 2022 09:16 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/filtering-with-the-switch-node/64229/3 "2022-06-22T09:16:25Z")
Show us what the message going in looks like if you feed it to a debug node. Set the debug node to Output Complete Message.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [21 August 2022 09:16 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/filtering-with-the-switch-node/64229/4 "2022-08-21T09:16:50Z")
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