Hello, I would like to create a group in Node-RED depending on the value msg.payload (It should be created and also named according to the included value), how can I do that? Is it possible with the ui-template node?

No you can't create groups dynamically anyhow. The ui_template itself must be in the group to be rendered and ready to receive messages and do stuff.

Okay can I select an already existing group from a text dashboard node depending on a msg.payload value?

Can I select an already existing group from a text dashboard node depending on a msg.payload value?

Can you give us some more information, exactly what are you trying to get the dashboard to do?

In a text node, you cannot specify parameters for the dashboard group. I have created different dashboard groups (Group1, Group2,...) and would like to set the dashboard group of a text node to a specific group (z.B. Group1) depending on the value in msg.payload (e.g. Group1, Group2).

OK. Why do you want to move a text node from one group to another? Maybe an image of what you are trying for would help me understand.

I want to put the visualization (all the dashboard nodes) in a subflow, so that i can reuse and then visualize data according to what the subflow gets as the input

I don't use subflows so this is mostly guesswork. You can use a ui-control node to hide or reveal groups Disable a dropdown node on the basis of a switch node result - #11 by E1cid So maybe you could have several groups, each with the same set of text fields. The subflow could populate the fields…

[image] sophia.maurer: I want to put the visualization (all the dashboard nodes) in a subflow That's another thing you can't do. Well you can do, but it doesn't work.

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