Opening the editor for a specific node programmatically

TacticalNudge · 18 August 2025 20:56

Hi everyone.

I’ve got a case where we have a node editor containing an editableList. The first column of the editableList contains a dropdown / select of all the FooConfigNode instances This is easy enough to populate by filtering from RED.nodes.eachConfig, but I would also like to be able to create a FooConfigNode by adding a “Create New FooConfig“ button to the bottom of the editableList.Is there a way to trigger opening a new editor for the FooConfigNode type or maybe even opening the editor for a specific FooConfigNode instance? I had a look through RED.editor... but I suspect that this might be part of the undocumented API.

Any hints or tips that could point me in the right direction?

GogoVega · 19 August 2025 10:04

That's right, you need to use editConfig with _ADD_ as id to create a new config node.

github.com/GogoVega/node-red

packages/node_modules/%40node-red/editor-client/types/index.d.ts

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           */
          edit(node: nodes.Node, defaultTab?: any): void;
          /**
           * Opens the edit box for the given **config node**.
           * @param name name of the property that holds this config node or empty
           * @param type type of config node
           * @param id id of config node to edit.`_ADD_` for a new one
           * @param prefix the input prefix of the parent property
           * @param editContext the node that was being edited that triggered editing this node
           */
          editConfig(
              name: string,
              type: string,
              id: string,
              prefix?: editor.ConfigNodePrefix,
              editContext?: nodes.Node
          ): void;
          /**
           * Opens the edit box for the given **flow** (workspace).
           * @param workspace The flow to edit
           * @param defaultTab

AllanOricil · 19 August 2025 20:40

@TacticalNudge

I know it is not related to your issue but i would like to let you know i created a framework to write nodes and you could help finding issues if you develop your custom nodes using it

It allows you to author nodes using current web dev tooling and use vue 3 to write your node forms. I need non biased people to try it and find issues that i cant see. There is no editableList vue component in the core yet, but you could add it with a PR in the above repo.

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