# Send message to button from within a function node?
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/send-message-to-button-from-within-a-function-node/32275
**Category:** General
**Created:** [1 September 2020 03:08 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/send-message-to-button-from-within-a-function-node/32275 "2020-09-01T03:08:53Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Nodi.Rubrum](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Nodi.Rubrum)
#### Post date: [1 September 2020 03:08 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/send-message-to-button-from-within-a-function-node/32275/1 "2020-09-01T03:08:53Z")
I searched for an example on this, but did not seem to find a match? Send message to known named button from within a function node? I have a group of buttons I need to initialize based on some calculations done in a function node, figure I could just initialize the buttons as I do the calculations, if the above question is possible?
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### Author:  [@Colin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Colin)
#### Post date: [1 September 2020 06:19 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/send-message-to-button-from-within-a-function-node/32275/2 "2020-09-01T06:19:12Z")
Can't you just connect wires in the normal way?
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### Author:  [@Nodi.Rubrum](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Nodi.Rubrum)
#### Post date: [1 September 2020 15:57 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/send-message-to-button-from-within-a-function-node/32275/3 "2020-09-01T15:57:12Z")
Yup, i did actually, and built an array of the buttons that needed the message, and returned that from the function node. I had the button list, from how the UI is initialized on NR start. So if I add or remove a button, the code adapts. Which is a better 'NR' wire design than what I was thinking I wanted to do when I posed the question. At times, I tend to revert back to an Event-\>Action mind-set, rather than a Wire-Route mind-set. Old habits.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [31 October 2020 15:57 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/send-message-to-button-from-within-a-function-node/32275/4 "2020-10-31T15:57:23Z")
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