# How to block trigger node?
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-to-block-trigger-node/14928
**Category:** General
**Created:** [30 August 2019 08:57 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-to-block-trigger-node/14928 "2019-08-30T08:57:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@hathemi](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/hathemi)
#### Post date: [30 August 2019 08:57 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-to-block-trigger-node/14928/1 "2019-08-30T08:57:00Z")
i have a trigger node that resend me the existant msg every 1s.
Isthere a way to block the sending msg for a limit time ?
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### Author:  [@Colin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Colin)
#### Post date: [30 August 2019 09:28 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-to-block-trigger-node/14928/2 "2019-08-30T09:28:47Z")
If a Trigger node is sending a message when it should not then that is a bug or s/w version issue of some sort. Can you explain in more detail exactly what is happening?
I wonder if perhaps it is an Inject node that you refer to not a Trigger node.
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### Author:  [@ukmoose](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/ukmoose)
#### Post date: [30 August 2019 09:33 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-to-block-trigger-node/14928/3 "2019-08-30T09:33:06Z")
If you have set the trigger to resend the existing message very 1 second and you just want to stop receiving that along your flow. You could look at using a context variable.
See [https://cookbook.nodered.org/basic/route-on-context](https://cookbook.nodered.org/basic/route-on-context)
So in a second flow you can set a context flow ( on / off ) and then in your existing flow ou have a switch that detects the context variable flow.
Although it might be time to redesigning your flow...
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### Author:  [@Colin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Colin)
#### Post date: [30 August 2019 09:57 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-to-block-trigger-node/14928/4 "2019-08-30T09:57:12Z")
The Trigger node has not got an option to resend the existing message, unless I am confused.
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### Author:  [@cymplecy](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/cymplecy)
#### Post date: [30 August 2019 09:59 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-to-block-trigger-node/14928/5 "2019-08-30T09:59:58Z")
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### Author:  [@Colin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Colin)
#### Post date: [30 August 2019 10:11 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-to-block-trigger-node/14928/6 "2019-08-30T10:11:55Z")
Now I am feeling very silly, I had never noticed that.
So to answer the question you could use node-red-contrib-simple-gate to block the messages when required. If you want to stop it for a certain time then you can use a Trigger node to send the Close message to the gate then after the defined time send the Open message.