Is it possible to have two machines, one makes changes to flows, the other accepts with a simple "ok" rather than having to scroll through a list and find and choose the nodes that have been changed and accept them individually ? I am a single person with two machines, there is no other person who has access. Thanks,
Maybe let the 2 machines share the same flow file on a shared drive?
When you deploy, a message will popup on the other machine "The flows on the server have been updated" with a button "Review changes", but it goes away if you ignore it.
If on the other hand you are making changes on both machines, dont.
So, not possible to use both to make changes ?
Its clearly possible; you seem to be doing it.
Why not describe your setup and why you want to do this?
Perhaps someone knows an easy way to avoid problems, perhaps you should consider a flowfuse setup rather than plain Node-red.
Yes obviously possible but as in my original question, without the hassle described above. I have a screen on my kitchen wall where I sometimes want to press inject nodes but I usually edit the flows on a laptop. This is where the problem arises.
I will look at flow fuse, thanks.
Just pressing an inject node should not mark the flow as dirty, but accidentally moving it will do.
Have you considered a dashboard with buttons for the touchscreen in the kitchen?
It doesn't seem to want to let me press the inject until I've merged the flows which sometimes, (not always, it must depend on which nodes I've changed) means scrolling down and selecting and okaying. It's a small screen so can be quite tricky as well.
The dashboard is in the making but until I've got my flows finalised...
Maybe easier just to reboot the screen if you have made changes on the laptop. Or just re-open the browser, or even refresh the page on the screen if that is easier.
Ok, thanks.
The correct answer is to not use the Node-RED editor in the kitchen, but to use a Dashboard as mentioned.
The Node-RED editor was never meant to be a dashboad, it's for editing the flows.
Well my flows are never finalised but I could easily make a temporary dashboard with 2 or 3 buttons which send messages to trigger various flows. Part of the joy of developing in Node-red:
ps No I don't really use Node-red to order pizza. 
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But do you really use it to.. Shutdown your nuclear reactor ???
I was more concerned about the "Taylor Swift" button... 
But the pizza button is going on my dashboard straight away.
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@dynamicdave Dave, hopefully @jbudd doesn’t live in our area!
