Trying to build a simple node to show " mdToast " popups on incoming messages. Looking at the existing "Notification" node I see it uses ui.add to insert itself , and not ui.addWidget (like "normal" widgets which belong to a group and have an order do): module.exports = function(RED) { var ui = re…

[image] clickworkorange: add a hidden dashboard widget Hi @clickworkorange , If I'm not mistaken, the trick was to set the height to -1, like in the node-red-contrib-ui-contextmenu node. Bart

Thanks! That sounds a bit "bodgy" though :slight_smile: I'd like to reuse as much as possible of the Angular mdToast functionality that's already in there...

No worries, I'm going with a fork of node-red-dashboard and will see if I can add a generic popup API based on mdDialog instead - this seems to be a better fit for my use case than mdToast, and I think the dashboard needs popup functionality anyway.

How to create dashboard node for toast popups?

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BartButenaers 16 February 2021 13:30 4

It is not that we have abused some kind of backdoor to get it correct. At the time being @dceejay has been so kind to add this functionality for us in the dashboard, as you can read here

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How to create dashboard node for toast popups?

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