# Help to find how this message is being made

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/help-to-find-how-this-message-is-being-made/31896>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [23 August 2020 06:22 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/help-to-find-how-this-message-is-being-made/31896 "2020-08-23T06:22:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![Trying\_to\_learn](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/trying_to_learn/32/28400_2.png) [@Trying\_to\_learn](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Trying_to_learn)\
**Post date:** [23 August 2020 06:22 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/help-to-find-how-this-message-is-being-made/31896/1 "2020-08-23T06:22:06Z")

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For reasons I am not sure I am trying to get back into an old project as a _distraction_ on train signals.

It doesn't work. (Shame. It used to.)  
This is all because a while back I lost EVERYTHING and had to reconstruct it from what I shared.

So anyway, I see this message:

```auto
{"payload":"LOWSPEED","event":{"clientX":532,"clientY":154,"bbox":[435,170,591,122]},"socketid":"P6fulXfZI2jY3TYwAAAD","_msgid":"9f1ebba8.122b38","colour":"red","txt":"Hold","fontclr":"white","topic":"AHEAD","_event":"node:4527d1bd.1b3fe"}

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clientX, clientY.... bbox.....

I don't remember using them. Yes, I know I use vague names sometimes, but these take the cake.

In all seriousness: How can I find _who_ (or _what_) is making this message?

Searching `event` yields squillions of matches as there are a lot of flows on the machine.

Searches aren't case sensitive, but when I search `bbox` I get `no matches` from the search.

Does search search sub-flows?  
I have the sub-flow open.

Is this because I have `use angular theme in ui_template` in the `dashboard site` tab?  
Because it only seems to happen when I press a button. If I send the message with an `inject` node it isn't there.

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**Author:** ![knolleary](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/knolleary/32/3_2.png) [@knolleary](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/knolleary)\
**Post date:** [23 August 2020 07:19 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/help-to-find-how-this-message-is-being-made/31896/2 "2020-08-23T07:19:52Z")

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> [@Trying\_to\_learn](#):
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> it only seems to happen when I press a button. If I send the message with an `inject` node it isn't there.

Did you consider adding a debug node after one of your dashboard button nodes to see if the properties were there? If you had you would have seen those properties are being set by the ui\_button node.

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**Author:** ![Trying\_to\_learn](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/trying_to_learn/32/28400_2.png) [@Trying\_to\_learn](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Trying_to_learn)\
**Post date:** [23 August 2020 07:31 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/help-to-find-how-this-message-is-being-made/31896/3 "2020-08-23T07:31:21Z")

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It didn't occur to me to do that as when I looked at the `button` node, all I saw was it sending was `X`when pressed.

Sorry I (maybe) cried `wolf`. I am trying to restore a big flow I lost a long time ago and when it isn't working - when it used to - I started to look at the messages and these _extraneous_ stuff got me a bit worried.

Thanks again.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/1X/d073cd938eafa2e558d7c2cd59003b3ef4963033.png) [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [6 September 2020 07:31 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/help-to-find-how-this-message-is-being-made/31896/4 "2020-09-06T07:31:27Z")

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Closed on 6 September 2020 07:31 UTC

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