in one of my flows I want to use the dashboard drop down node (ui_dropdown) to select a number from 1 to 45. After the number is selected it is then read to flow.set to preserve that number across reboots. The help panel says that by "setting msg.payload to one of the item values will preset the cho…

dynamicdave 9 January 2021 14:19 2

This is what I used to pre-fill a drop-down menu.

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Pre-populate drop down dashboard node

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