# Mass-changing UI nodes on a flow import

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/mass-changing-ui-nodes-on-a-flow-import/66571>\
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**Created:** [17 August 2022 20:11 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/mass-changing-ui-nodes-on-a-flow-import/66571 "2022-08-17T20:11:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![Andrei](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/andrei/32/10446_2.png) [@Andrei](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Andrei)\
**Post date:** [2 September 2022 14:31 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/mass-changing-ui-nodes-on-a-flow-import/66571/7 "2022-09-02T14:31:24Z")

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What is the outcome of your latest testing with the VM ?

You can see on below post that @JustinB created a bash file to solve a similar issue. Perhaps you could check if such solution can fit your use case ?

> [@Duplicate flows automated in runtime](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/duplicate-flows-automated-in-runtime/67168):
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> Hey, I'm currently working on a project to get and save data from a control device. I've set up everything in the dashboard, so you can do measurements, save the data into a database, convert the data to csv, download it, delete and write content to the database, change ip addresses and so on. What I want to do now is to add the functionality so the user can duplicate the whole flow (every flow shown in the navbar) to have access to multiple control devices with different ip addresses. My goal i…

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