List node, get checkbox state

[bodagrave]

Hi all!
I'm using node-red-node-ui-list for a groceries list. I'm working on a solution to delete an entry as soon as it is checked, or alternatively delete the checked entries as soon as I click on a button.

Can anyone give my an advice how to check the state of the checkbox?

That would really be a big help.

Thanks in advance!

[bodagrave]

Does it even have a trigger or is it just a design function? Does anyone know? And if it has no trigger, does anyone have another idea how to delete an entry of the list after UI interaction?

[Steve-Mcl]

Never used it but the readme suggests you can populate the list by a payload AND you can get change events from the "output port"

Based on reading that, you can simply maintain a "todo list" (array) in context and add to / remove from that list based on the events it sends.

[bodagrave]

Hi Steve-Mcl,
thanks for that hint, it pulls back e.g. the name of the entry in the payload, this is definitively something to work with!

[bodagrave]

This is what I've done:
I used the output node with a function node, which contains this:

if (msg.payload.isChecked == true){
/* do something */
}
return msg;

that "do something" is: define it as a "has to be deleted", specifically: put a "-" before the name. In my flow every entry, which starts with an "-" will be deleted if available. Than I linked the node to my back to the beginning of my workflow, and: voilá! It works.