I currently use node-red-contrib-ui-state-trail by @hotNipi and it is excellent for my purposes.
I get the status of a machine running (only 2 states as of now, on and off), and i get the user to populate the reasons for downtime which gets the time from and to after clicking the trail line, and logs into the database, in the same way, i get the 'reason for downtime' when i click on a past event. it gets the from and to time from the 'click' and queries the database to get the correct row to populate.
