Populate the labels in a dashboard drop down menu via a message?

It looks like you have used string manipulation rather than JSON parsing.

I say look because it's hard to tell from how you have posted - please use the "copy value" button so we get correctly formatted data & always put code in a code block:

getting data from node-red debug:

There’s a great page in the docs (Working with messages : Node-RED) that will explain how to use the debug panel to find the right path/value for any data item.

Pay particular attention to the part about the buttons that appear under your mouse pointer when you over hover a debug message property in the sidebar.

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Property formatting posted code

In order to make code readable and usable it is necessary to surround your code with three backticks (also known as a left quote or backquote ```)

``` 
   code goes here 
```

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See this post for more details - How to share code or flow json