Search for in change node

General
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Hi

I'm new to node-red and seem to run against something not very logical?

I try to replace the word "NA" with a value, so I can send it in a http request.
For some reason the string is not recognized in the change node when using the "search for" option, despite being part of the payload.

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I've tried to make several variants (with/without quotes to search, pointing to the exact part of the payload, ...) but the word NA is never found. I believe to be missing something obvious.

Any suggestions?

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Try using msg.payload.state since msg.payload is an object not a string

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Or is that msg.payload.PostState.state?
Hard to be sure when all we have to go on is a picture, two wires into one debug node and two identically named change nodes :upside_down_face:

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Thanks,
sorry for confusion, only lower part of screenshot was relevant.

The winning combination turned out to be msg.payload.PostState.state and NA without the "" quotes.
I probably mistakenly understood "search for" would search through the entire payload automatically.