# How can I get a msg.payload value to use it in a template and plot a map on a dashboard? 

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**Category:** Dashboard\
**Tags:** node-red-dashboard\
**Created:** [11 August 2022 06:47 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-can-i-get-a-msg-payload-value-to-use-it-in-a-template-and-plot-a-map-on-a-dashboard/66310 "2022-08-11T06:47:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![dynamicdave](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/dynamicdave/32/96_2.png) [@dynamicdave](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/dynamicdave)\
**Post date:** [11 August 2022 07:03 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-can-i-get-a-msg-payload-value-to-use-it-in-a-template-and-plot-a-map-on-a-dashboard/66310/2 "2022-08-11T07:03:35Z")

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Welcome to the Node-RED forum.

Can I suggest, as a starting point, you show what you have done so far.  
By this I mean 'share' your NR flow here.  
This will enable people to help you (as at the moment any suggestion offered would be a complete guess).

This is how to share your code.

> [@How to share code or flow json](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-to-share-code-or-flow-json/506):
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> To share code samples or flow json in this forum, you need to take care to format it properly so that it is displayed correctly. The easiest way to do that is to click the 'Preformatted Text' button in the toolbar: [image] Then paste in your code or flow json. You should end up with three back-tick characters - ``` - on their own line before and after the code. On standard US English keyboards, this is on the same key as the ~ character. Using the backticks will ens…

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