# Redirecting to dashboard from flow
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/redirecting-to-dashboard-from-flow/11093
**Category:** General
**Created:** [14 May 2019 05:27 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/redirecting-to-dashboard-from-flow/11093 "2019-05-14T05:27:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@mvidhya86](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/mvidhya86)
#### Post date: [14 May 2019 05:27 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/redirecting-to-dashboard-from-flow/11093/1 "2019-05-14T05:27:00Z")
Is there a way i redirect to dashboard from the flow.
I get HTML as msg.payload and this i could send to dashboard, but user has to click on dashboard icon to preview it. How do i redirect to dashboard from the flow, say it opens in a new tab when the flow runs ?
Note: Node red instance is on a different machine(m2) and i access this from my machine(m1) - which means from my machine i open m2's node red url and have to redirect to dashboard(m2)
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### Author:  [@bakman2](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/bakman2)
#### Post date: [14 May 2019 05:52 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/redirecting-to-dashboard-from-flow/11093/2 "2019-05-14T05:52:14Z")
- the flow editor is used to create flows
- the dashboard is used for.....dashboard
Why not covert the html to json and display output in the debug panel ?
Why not creating a bookmark for the dashboard ?
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### Author:  [@mvidhya86](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/mvidhya86)
#### Post date: [20 May 2019 04:16 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/redirecting-to-dashboard-from-flow/11093/3 "2019-05-20T04:16:07Z")
we have flows where in which end user clicks only on execute = more of a non technical operation and interested to see final output in a new tab or new browser and not within flow editor(like debug pane)
bookmark is the last option if nothing works out.
I also tried node-red-java-contrib function to redirect to dashboard as mentioned in section 3 of [https://flows.nodered.org/node/node-red-contrib-java-function](https://flows.nodered.org/node/node-red-contrib-java-function) but
Desktop.getDesktop().browse(uri)
takes the system where node red is installed (m2) and not the current machine (m1)
Any suggestions to achieve this would be of great help !
Thanks
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### Author:  [@bakman2](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/bakman2)
#### Post date: [20 May 2019 04:34 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/redirecting-to-dashboard-from-flow/11093/4 "2019-05-20T04:34:21Z")
So why not move "execute" to a dashboard and display the output in the same view ?
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### Author:  [@mvidhya86](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/mvidhya86)
#### Post date: [20 May 2019 04:57 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/redirecting-to-dashboard-from-flow/11093/5 "2019-05-20T04:57:41Z")
Could you explain this please
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### Author:  [@bakman2](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/bakman2)
#### Post date: [20 May 2019 05:01 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/redirecting-to-dashboard-from-flow/11093/6 "2019-05-20T05:01:14Z")
> [@mvidhya86](#):
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> we have flows where in which end user clicks only on execute = more of a non technical operation and interested to see final output in a new tab
Move the execute to the same tab (ie. dashboard)
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### Author:  [@zenofmud](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/zenofmud)
#### Post date: [20 May 2019 08:25 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/redirecting-to-dashboard-from-flow/11093/7 "2019-05-20T08:25:05Z")
Use a button in the dashboard to start the flow