# Manage Palette 'dashboard'
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/manage-palette-dashboard/95297
**Category:** Core Development
**Tags:** dashboard-2
**Created:** [10 February 2025 20:14 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/manage-palette-dashboard/95297 "2025-02-10T20:14:18Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@TotallyInformation](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/TotallyInformation)
#### Post date: [11 February 2025 12:37 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/manage-palette-dashboard/95297/21 "2025-02-11T12:37:29Z")
> [@E1cid](#):
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> What other wasy of ranking do others see?
I kind of assumed, but don't really know, that the relevance came from the npm equivalent search.
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### Author:  [@E1cid](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/E1cid)
#### Post date: [11 February 2025 12:42 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/manage-palette-dashboard/95297/22 "2025-02-11T12:42:13Z")
Yes that is how it is sorted now, my question was really for new/additional ways.
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### Author:  [@TotallyInformation](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/TotallyInformation)
#### Post date: [11 February 2025 12:42 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/manage-palette-dashboard/95297/23 "2025-02-11T12:42:40Z")
> [@E1cid](#):
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> I think we should keep this as simple as possible and allow users to do their due diligence. Possibly an option to sort by download, update, rating and flags.
There are a number of API's that will highlight things like code quality, number of GitHub stars, etc. These could possibly be brought into the catalogue?
Otherwise, perhaps we need an FAQ for people without the experience to be able to spot likely good and poor packages?
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### Author:  [@jbudd](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/jbudd)
#### Post date: [11 February 2025 15:44 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/manage-palette-dashboard/95297/24 "2025-02-11T15:44:27Z")
I considered an alternative sort order using a sort key comprising
Package is `deprecated ? 1 : 0` plus
Package name `contains the search term ? 0 : 1` plus
Package name stripped of `@[^\/]*\/` and `node-red-` and `contrib-`
Unfortunately the `sort` I'm playing with is not behaving the way I expected: I can't understand why 00dashboard-2 sorts above 00dashboard.
No time to play with this any more. If it worked, I'd also try it against search term "mysql"
A few package names and sort keys
```auto
pi@Zero2Pink:~ $ cat junk
01ui_clock node-red-contrib-ui-clock
00dashboard node-red-dashboard
00dashboard-2-ui-scheduler @cgjgh/node-red-dashboard-2-ui-scheduler
00dashboard-2-ui-slide-confirm @cgjgh/node-red-dashboard-2-ui-slide-confirm
00dashboard-2-ui-gauge-classic @colinl/node-red-dashboard-2-ui-gauge-classic
00dashboard-average-bars node-red-contrib-dashboard-average-bars
00mdashboard node-red-contrib-mdashboard
00dashboard @flowfuse/node-red-dashboard
```
```auto
pi@Zero2Pink:~ $ sort -k1 junk
00dashboard-2-ui-gauge-classic @colinl/node-red-dashboard-2-ui-gauge-classic
00dashboard-2-ui-scheduler @cgjgh/node-red-dashboard-2-ui-scheduler
00dashboard-2-ui-slide-confirm @cgjgh/node-red-dashboard-2-ui-slide-confirm
00dashboard-average-bars node-red-contrib-dashboard-average-bars
00dashboard @flowfuse/node-red-dashboard
00dashboard node-red-dashboard
00mdashboard node-red-contrib-mdashboard
01ui_clock node-red-contrib-ui-clock
```
Was hoping for
```auto
00dashboard @flowfuse/node-red-dashboard
00dashboard node-red-dashboard
00dashboard-2-ui-gauge-classic @colinl/node-red-dashboard-2-ui-gauge-classic
00dashboard-2-ui-scheduler @cgjgh/node-red-dashboard-2-ui-scheduler
00dashboard-2-ui-slide-confirm @cgjgh/node-red-dashboard-2-ui-slide-confirm
00dashboard-average-bars node-red-contrib-dashboard-average-bars
00mdashboard node-red-contrib-mdashboard
01ui_clock node-red-contrib-ui-clock
```
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### Author:  [@joepavitt](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/joepavitt)
#### Post date: [12 February 2025 11:18 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/manage-palette-dashboard/95297/25 "2025-02-12T11:18:29Z")
> [@Colin](#):
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> how many open issues there are might be helpful.
"Issues" aren't always negative though. The majority of Dashboard 2.0's issues are feature requests and items for planning
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### Author:  [@Colin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Colin)
#### Post date: [12 February 2025 11:54 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/manage-palette-dashboard/95297/26 "2025-02-12T11:54:28Z")
> [@joepavitt](#):
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> "Issues" aren't always negative though.
Good point
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### Author:  [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [13 April 2025 11:55 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/manage-palette-dashboard/95297/27 "2025-04-13T11:55:18Z")
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