Hi, I'm working on a project in which the user configures a dashboard basically by modifying different objects and arrays. When I close and open Node-RED I want these variables to remain the same as when closed. I've been doing some research and to my understand this is currently only possible by e…

Sounds like you are looking for context. See documentation .

Thank you. I've tried to paste the following inside the setting.js file: [Skærmbillede 2022-11-15 231856] When I close and open Node-RED it does not however look like the context data is loaded: [Skærmbillede 2022-11-15 232048] Do I have to do anything special in order to load the data to Node-…

[image] Mbessing: Thank you. I've tried to paste the following inside the setting.js file: The documentation contains a lot of words explaining context. Read what you have pasted. Note that all the settings were already in the settings file, you just needed to uncomment it, but i digress.

[image] Mbessing: When I close and open Node-RED i You have to restart node-red, not just close and open the browser window.

I wrote this (quite) awhile ago but it might help you understand a bit more about context data: [image] A guide to understanding 'Persistent Context' General This is something I wrote up after playing with the context options. I've filed a PR with some of this added to the…

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I wrote this (quite) awhile ago but it might help you understand a bit more about context data:

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Saving context - advice requested! FAQs	21	1721	18 July 2020
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How to save and load flow Context Data

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