# How can i use the value of a variable i created inside the template node
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-can-i-use-the-value-of-a-variable-i-created-inside-the-template-node/54780
**Category:** Dashboard
**Tags:** node-red-dashboard
**Created:** [6 December 2021 14:51 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-can-i-use-the-value-of-a-variable-i-created-inside-the-template-node/54780 "2021-12-06T14:51:13Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@hanine](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/hanine)
#### Post date: [6 December 2021 14:51 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-can-i-use-the-value-of-a-variable-i-created-inside-the-template-node/54780/1 "2021-12-06T14:51:13Z")
I am new to node red and i created a variable inside the template node and i want to use its content in another node how can i do that?
thank you in advance
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### Author:  [@Colin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Colin)
#### Post date: [6 December 2021 15:04 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-can-i-use-the-value-of-a-variable-i-created-inside-the-template-node/54780/2 "2021-12-06T15:04:08Z")
I am not sure what you mean by creating a variable inside a template node, but the usual method for getting data from one node to another is to pass it in a message.
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### Author:  [@hanine](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/hanine)
#### Post date: [6 December 2021 15:06 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-can-i-use-the-value-of-a-variable-i-created-inside-the-template-node/54780/3 "2021-12-06T15:06:28Z")
event inside a ui dashboard template node?
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### Author:  [@Colin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Colin)
#### Post date: [6 December 2021 15:17 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-can-i-use-the-value-of-a-variable-i-created-inside-the-template-node/54780/5 "2021-12-06T15:17:44Z")
> [@hanine](#):
>
> inside a ui dashboard template node
I assumed you meant a normal template node rather than ui-template. The ui\_template code runs in the browser, not the server, so again the only way to get it back to the server is to send it back via a message.
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### Author:  [@hanine](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/hanine)
#### Post date: [6 December 2021 15:20 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-can-i-use-the-value-of-a-variable-i-created-inside-the-template-node/54780/6 "2021-12-06T15:20:32Z")
No i mean the ui template node when i set a msg.variable it returns message undefined
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### Author:  [@hanine](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/hanine)
#### Post date: [6 December 2021 15:27 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-can-i-use-the-value-of-a-variable-i-created-inside-the-template-node/54780/7 "2021-12-06T15:27:44Z")
\n \n Click to send the files\n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n",
"storeOutMessages": true,
"fwdInMessages": true,
"resendOnRefresh": false,
"templateScope": "local",
"className": "",
"x": 300,
"y": 300,
"wires": [
[
"ae07764595b20bdf"
]
]
},
{
"id": "ba4cd6c4f1b1c4ad",
"type": "ui_group",
"name": "Default",
"tab": "8e403f6af717befd",
"order": 1,
"disp": true,
"width": 20,
"collapse": false,
"className": ""
},
{
"id": "8e403f6af717befd",
"type": "ui_tab",
"name": "Home",
"icon": "dashboard",
"order": 1,
"disabled": false,
"hidden": false
}
]
```
here is my code if it helps, i want to return the value of the content array to the next node
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### Author:  [@Colin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Colin)
#### Post date: [6 December 2021 15:35 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-can-i-use-the-value-of-a-variable-i-created-inside-the-template-node/54780/8 "2021-12-06T15:35:24Z")
You can't send messages from the browser code like that, as the code is running in the browser environment, not in the node-red server.
This might be helpful
> **[Node-RED Dashboard Template Examples (AngularJS)](https://it.knightnet.org.uk/kb/nr-qa/dashboard-template-examples/#a-couple-of-ways-to-send-a-msg-back-to-node-red)**
>
> Some examples of using AngularJS with the Node-RED Dashboard.
> Not all features of Angular are accessible via the Dashboard.
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### Author:  [@hanine](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/hanine)
#### Post date: [6 December 2021 15:37 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-can-i-use-the-value-of-a-variable-i-created-inside-the-template-node/54780/9 "2021-12-06T15:37:55Z")
Thank you so much for the help
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### Author:  [@Colin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Colin)
#### Post date: [6 December 2021 15:39 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-can-i-use-the-value-of-a-variable-i-created-inside-the-template-node/54780/10 "2021-12-06T15:39:57Z")
Could you describe what you are trying to achieve? I suspect that there may be much easier ways, it is easy as a beginner to go off down the wrong path because you do not know what can be done.
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### Author:  [@hanine](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/hanine)
#### Post date: [6 December 2021 15:44 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-can-i-use-the-value-of-a-variable-i-created-inside-the-template-node/54780/11 "2021-12-06T15:44:34Z")
I am reading a list of files from an input the files are of big sizes that's why am splitting them and then i have to encode them and send them one by one to a http request that has an encoded file as a body
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### Author:  [@Colin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Colin)
#### Post date: [6 December 2021 15:53 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-can-i-use-the-value-of-a-variable-i-created-inside-the-template-node/54780/12 "2021-12-06T15:53:30Z")
Why are you doing any of that inside a ui\_template node?
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### Author:  [@hanine](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/hanine)
#### Post date: [6 December 2021 15:54 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-can-i-use-the-value-of-a-variable-i-created-inside-the-template-node/54780/13 "2021-12-06T15:54:41Z")
because i need an input
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### Author:  [@Colin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Colin)
#### Post date: [6 December 2021 15:54 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-can-i-use-the-value-of-a-variable-i-created-inside-the-template-node/54780/14 "2021-12-06T15:54:59Z")
What sort of input?
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### Author:  [@hanine](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/hanine)
#### Post date: [6 December 2021 15:57 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-can-i-use-the-value-of-a-variable-i-created-inside-the-template-node/54780/15 "2021-12-06T15:57:25Z")
input file to choose the files
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### Author:  [@Colin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Colin)
#### Post date: [6 December 2021 16:13 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-can-i-use-the-value-of-a-variable-i-created-inside-the-template-node/54780/16 "2021-12-06T16:13:26Z")
Do you mean the user enters a file name?
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### Author:  [@hanine](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/hanine)
#### Post date: [6 December 2021 16:15 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-can-i-use-the-value-of-a-variable-i-created-inside-the-template-node/54780/17 "2021-12-06T16:15:57Z")
yes to choose a file from your local device
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### Author:  [@Colin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Colin)
#### Post date: [6 December 2021 16:17 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-can-i-use-the-value-of-a-variable-i-created-inside-the-template-node/54780/18 "2021-12-06T16:17:22Z")
Please give more information, it is hard work trying to understand. What do you want to show on the dashboard and what does the user do? Select from a dropdown list for example?
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### Author:  [@hanine](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/hanine)
#### Post date: [6 December 2021 16:20 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-can-i-use-the-value-of-a-variable-i-created-inside-the-template-node/54780/19 "2021-12-06T16:20:46Z")
choose a file or multiple files from the device they are .jt files then encode its content to b64 and then send it to the body of a http request
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### Author:  [@Colin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Colin)
#### Post date: [6 December 2021 16:24 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-can-i-use-the-value-of-a-variable-i-created-inside-the-template-node/54780/20 "2021-12-06T16:24:41Z")
Where are the files? On the node-red server or on the machine running the browser?
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### Author:  [@hanine](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/hanine)
#### Post date: [6 December 2021 16:27 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-can-i-use-the-value-of-a-variable-i-created-inside-the-template-node/54780/21 "2021-12-06T16:27:40Z")
my machine which is running the node red browser
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