# Prompt inside a function
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/prompt-inside-a-function/59459
**Category:** General
**Created:** [6 March 2022 22:56 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/prompt-inside-a-function/59459 "2022-03-06T22:56:11Z")
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### Author:  [@Marty1982](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Marty1982)
#### Post date: [6 March 2022 22:56 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/prompt-inside-a-function/59459/1 "2022-03-06T22:56:11Z")
Hi all!
I need to use a function to prompt for a film name the send that to a payload in order to obtain the result and work with that result later.
I'm getting only wrong result. So far i have this.
```auto
var filmName = '';
msg.payload = filmName;
return msg;
```
Thanks in advance!
Regards
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### Author:  [@TotallyInformation](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/TotallyInformation)
#### Post date: [7 March 2022 01:01 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/prompt-inside-a-function/59459/2 "2022-03-07T01:01:02Z")
Flows run without user intervention so you cannot prompt a user for a value in a flow as it doesn't make sense.
What you need to do is create a UI for user input and incorporate that into your flow. Dashboard is the simplest approach to do this.
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### Author:  [@Marty1982](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Marty1982)
#### Post date: [7 March 2022 03:04 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/prompt-inside-a-function/59459/3 "2022-03-07T03:04:38Z")
Hi!.
Yeah, you're right about make a user input with the dashboard. But i think that it also can be managed within a function node because there you can write the question and capture the answer, for example, "how old are you?".
I mean, if I do it the same way as i write on a JS script so it can be done here.
Regards.
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### Author:  [@craigcurtin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/craigcurtin)
#### Post date: [7 March 2022 04:22 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/prompt-inside-a-function/59459/4 "2022-03-07T04:22:16Z")
No - flows do not interact with the user - that is the job of the dashboard
The usual way is to (as Julian said) have a text/prompt in the dashboard, grab that in msg.payload or similar and then pass that to your function node
Craig
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### Author:  [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [6 May 2022 04:22 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/prompt-inside-a-function/59459/5 "2022-05-06T04:22:54Z")
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