Hello NR Experts, My First post , since playing around with NR for a year, as most of my issues were resolved in this forum by searching. Since i see the ease of node-red-contrib-dashboard and flexibility of UI builder , is it possible to use (call) the node-red dashboard widgets (groups) inside …

Hi Sandy, welcome to the forum. There is no way of using dashboard widgets in UI builder. It has been covered in the forum a few times (but not so easy to find).

Hi Sandy, welcome to the discussion. :slight_smile: Dashboard uses the Angular v1 framework which you could also use in uibuilder (since it doesn't care what framework, if any, that you use). However, Dashboard works completely differently to uibuilder in that it pushes code to the front-end. I th…

Hi Julian, Thanks for the update , [image] TotallyInformation: Now, it is possible to create "components" that would work similarly to Dashboard's widgets (though you wouldn't normally want to send that code via the uibuilder websocket like Dashboard does). Indeed, I created an example compone…

Don't forget there is also node-red-contrib-componemt-dashboard that already has some widget as components

[image] spillz: If we could form a small working group where your ideas can be discussed . i can contribute some time into developing it . Fantastic! Lets start with a new topic here on the forum so that the most people will be able to see and contribute. If that topic gets too big, we can in…

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