Probably only Flexdash users have seen this, but @tve has added a 'help' button' to the node properties header of the Flexdash nodes, which if clicked, selects & opens the relevant help tab in the sidebar. Perhaps this should be recognised as good practice for developers, as it makes help very visi…

Yes, I already added both an open and a docs button to uibuilder - is in the v6.1.0 branch on GitHub if anyone wants to try it. :grin: [image] The docs button doesn't open the help sidebar but rather the full built-in documentation site in a new tab. [image]

The button link to the documentation is also a great idea :smiley: I'll need to update my contrib-nodes with both.... Making help more accessible has got to reduce support requests.

I have said repeatedly this type of thing should be added to the core of Node-RED. But everyone only seems interested in doing for their own nodes. I will add it for 3.1. Any nodes that have added it for them selves will have duplicate help buttons and it will be for them to fix.

[image] knolleary: But everyone only seems interested in doing for their own nodes. ...but isn't that because it hasn't been added to the core?

I'm not the only person capable of doing it. Node-RED is open source. Anyone could contribute the change for the benefit of everyone rather than just their own node. There are plenty of examples of "I think X could be better, so I've published my own version rather than help improve X". But after 1…

I don't disagree!! I didn't say that you should have added it, just that it had not been added.

[image] knolleary: I'm not the only person capable of doing it. Node-RED is open source. Anyone could contribute the change for the benefit of everyone rather than just their own node. I'm finding that it is very difficult to get a real discussion of new feature proposals here and most of the…

[image] tve: If such a feature is released in the core it'll take me another 5 minutes to add a if (RED.version < 3.x.x) predicate so there aren't two buttons. Suppose for the sake of argument :blush:, that the developers just lifted your code and used it in the core. Then who would have done…

[image] drmibell: Suppose for the sake of argument :blush:, that the developers just lifted your code and used it in the core. Then who would have done the most work? You know, this is a good point: total work would have been minimized! It would take one member of the core team just a couple…

[image] tve: For example, after several tries WRT introducing a notification into the flow editor when all nodes have been loaded I have given up. I have now dealt enough with the async loading that I can show that there's no clean work-around. All I can do is shrug my shoulders and add some mor…

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I just started one: When are config nodes defined in the flow editor?

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