Pre-fill an edit form node

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Good morning all,
I am trying to pre-fill an edit form node from the payload of an inject node (+ an edit file node) configured to retrieve the data in a file and send it to the edit form node when node-red starts.
After many attempts, I cannot see the payload I injected in the form. Could someone tell me if this is possible or if there is any chance that I will end up in this path?
Thank you in advance.

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did you try a search of the forum??? try searching for ui_form

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Yes I tried by searching for "edit form node". 150 results and no solution. I'm currently trying to put {{global.first_question}} in "Name" inside the form.

I will try immediately "UI_form"

Thanks for your response

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Well done for your UI_form search tip. Indeed with the post "How to initialize the user interface of the form" I created a function node which does the job with:
msg.payload = {"question": "test"}
return msg;

On the other hand, if I replace the word "test" by a context data, it does not work.
Example:
msg.payload = {"question": {{global.first_question}}}
return msg;
Many thanks for your help and if you have an idea to inject a context data ...
Thanks again,
Laurent

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In a function you need to get the global. Take a read of https://nodered.org/docs/user-guide/writing-functions#getset-multiple-values

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Thank you for your advice.
By getting the data at the exit of a node activated when restarting node-red, I solved the problem with the following solution in the function node:
input = msg.payload
msg.payload = {"question": input}
return msg;
Thanks again,
Laurent

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