# Restart flow with button from dashboard
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/restart-flow-with-button-from-dashboard/70567
**Category:** General
**Tags:** node-red-dashboard
**Created:** [14 November 2022 10:04 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/restart-flow-with-button-from-dashboard/70567 "2022-11-14T10:04:03Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@Giacomo23](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Giacomo23)
#### Post date: [14 November 2022 10:04 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/restart-flow-with-button-from-dashboard/70567/1 "2022-11-14T10:04:03Z")
Hi everyone, I have a question how can I restart a flow through a button in the dashboard?
thank you all
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### Author:  [@Trying\_to\_learn](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Trying_to_learn)
#### Post date: [14 November 2022 10:48 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/restart-flow-with-button-from-dashboard/70567/2 "2022-11-14T10:48:55Z")
Hi.
Sorry, but I have to ask....
What do yo mean: `Restart the flow`?
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### Author:  [@Giacomo23](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Giacomo23)
#### Post date: [14 November 2022 10:51 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/restart-flow-with-button-from-dashboard/70567/3 "2022-11-14T10:51:16Z")
I have to modify the flows.json file and to apply the changes I have to restart the flow
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### Author:  [@Trying\_to\_learn](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Trying_to_learn)
#### Post date: [14 November 2022 10:53 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/restart-flow-with-button-from-dashboard/70567/4 "2022-11-14T10:53:01Z")
Why are you modifying the `flows.json` file?
(More so)
HOW are you modifying it?
Normally it is via the editor/GUI and so there is nothing to do.
You press the `DEPLOY` button and that's it.
Oh, ok. You say **From the dashboard**.
Ok, above my skill set.
Sorry.
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### Author:  [@Colin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Colin)
#### Post date: [14 November 2022 14:41 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/restart-flow-with-button-from-dashboard/70567/6 "2022-11-14T14:41:18Z")
As @Trying_to_learn says, a key question is how are you updating the flow file?
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### Author:  [@Trying\_to\_learn](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Trying_to_learn)
#### Post date: [14 November 2022 19:32 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/restart-flow-with-button-from-dashboard/70567/7 "2022-11-14T19:32:50Z")
@Giacomo23 just as an option which should work, but is brute force:
After you modify the `flows.json` file and need to _restart_ the flow:
`exec` node and issue the command:
`node-red-restart`
It won't be quite that simple - paths, etc.
But: at a pinch it would do what you want.
However, I think it is problematic in ways you haven't thought.
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### Author:  [@fabi](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/fabi)
#### Post date: [15 December 2022 08:26 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/restart-flow-with-button-from-dashboard/70567/8 "2022-12-15T08:26:09Z")
You could also use the Admin API. For this, you first have to create an authentification key, then you can POST to /flows to restart every flow. To to this you have to define "reload" as the deployment type in the Header. Unfortunatly i don´t know how to restart an individual flow, as far as i know it is only possible to restart all at once. You can look it up here: [POST /flows : Node-RED (nodered.org)](https://nodered.org/docs/api/admin/methods/post/flows/)
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### Author:  [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [13 February 2023 08:26 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/restart-flow-with-button-from-dashboard/70567/9 "2023-02-13T08:26:56Z")
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