FlowFuse - Changing Dashboard Button, text ... Widget label at run-time

Vendors FlowFuse
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I am moving from Node-Red Dashboard to Flowfuse Dashboard 2 :

Question 1: I am setting up the button, Ui_text ... label at runtime with global / context variable. It doesn't seems to work anymore, if it is the case, what we can do for MUI application

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Second :

FontAwesome : It seems to not be compatible anymore ?
Can't get them to be displayed
I include the path for my fontawesome as bellow in a UI_Template as I did for my @flowfuse dashboard1 (node-red) apps.

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Thanks for your help

Node-RED Version 3.1.9
Launcher Version 2.3.0
Node.js Version 18.20.2

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Hi @ylechasseur

Thanks for your questions, to address them individually:

Question 1

You are correct in that we no longer support the {{ }} syntax. There have been many discussions about this, but fundamentally it boiled down to it being a significant security vulnerability

The alternative here is currently under development, which you can track here; Modify/Update UI-widget parameters from external · Issue #833 · FlowFuse/node-red-dashboard · GitHub

It's a complicated topic, but we're making progress.

Question 2

Correct, we no longer package font-awesome with Dashboard 2.0, however, it is still available from the Node-RED Editor itself at /vendor/font-awesome/css/font-awesome.min.css?v=3.0.2

What were you looking to do with font-awesome? We do now instead use the MDI Icon Library which is a substantially larger collection of modern icons

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Hi Joe,

Thanks for the quick reply,

I can understand for the security, now that you mention it. I beleive it is a not an easy point to resolved.
For the moment it is a show stopper for me, but I realy want to move forward to the dashboard 2 version and get my stuff integrated into the Flowfuse eco system, it is great ,,

I'll give a look to the icons, I only an old fontawesome pro's user.. change can be good as well

Best regards

Yves

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Unfortunately, you're not alone here. It's our top priority at the moment, and I'm working to getting a sensible solution in place in the very near future.

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