I've seen a number of examples on how to set the font color (or an icon) for the whole message using msg.color but I'm looking for the right way to do the same basing on the value within the message. In my case the message contains an array with values like true/false or On/Off, and currently each …

Thank you for the ideas, I've got it working. This solution is perhaps far from perfect, but but still good for a non profi :wink: [{"id":"d53f115.e791df","type":"tab","label":"Flow 5","disabled":false,"info":""},{"id":"77d03571.d5b03c","type":"split","z":"d53f115.e791df","name":"","splt":"\\n","sp…

I have been using a Switch Node and selecting either one of Change Nodes and then outputting via a text node. I don't know if that would help. [{"id":"f64a4d0.e5aca3","type":"change","z":"8803e200.b1143","name":"","rules":[{"t":"set","p":"Output","pt":"msg","to":"#FF3333","tot":"str"}],"action":""…

There are many ways to do what you want. off the top of my head... You take your array of messages, put it though a function that generates a new msg for each entry & outputs a stream of new messages that have a .color (property depending on the value). I'd suggest you add a topic like "item1", "…

Setting font color for a value

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AndrewZ 1 May 2020 15:08 3

Thanks, but that will not help in my case as I have multiple text nodes, I probably need some logic right in formatting function, not sure if it exists though.

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Setting font color for a value

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