So I'm trying to read and write context variables like flow or global in the script section of a dashboard template node. When trying to access the flow.get('x'); variable in a function, I get the console error that 'flow is not defined'. So I'm guessing that I'm in the wrong scope, I tried a lot b…

That post is about the core template node (not the dashboard template node) and it is about inserting the current value of a context variables into the output at the time it renders the template. As Colin said, you have no access to the context once any output is transferred to the browser. The on…

Fliens 28 October 2021 14:15 3

But that can't be true.
I found this post where they are using the context variables in the template node.
There must be a way to access the variables so that I can also write to them. (Or I hope so)

Topic		Replies	Views
UnWanted reset of flow context Dashboard	4	1225	17 January 2020
Global context probems General	3	1481	11 September 2018
How to refer to a flow context variable in ui_template? Dashboard	2	396	22 July 2021
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Local Context (revisited) Feature Requests	19	1191	18 March 2019

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Read and write context variables in dashboard template script section

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