Hi all, I recently did a fresh install of node red and dashboard. The 'Show Dialog' node seems to be missing. The weird thing is, I imported a flow that I had from the previous version of dashboard which has a 'Show Dialog' node and it works (almost, see next question) even though it's not availab…

Is that now (or perhaps always was) the Notification node? If it is then the Cancel button should send a payload containing whatever label you have defined for the Cancel button.

[{"id":"219cd04d.1085d","type":"ui_button","z":"87331cb3.aef4c","name":"","group":"f4e9d720.7ccd58","order":1,"width":0,"height":0,"passthru":false,"label":"Set wired network to DHCP","tooltip":"","color":"","bgcolor":"","icon":"","payload":"-","payloadType":"str","topic":"","x":220,"y":480,"wires"…

[{"id":"219cd04d.1085d","type":"ui_button","z":"87331cb3.aef4c","name":"","group":"f4e9d720.7ccd58","order":1,"width":0,"height":0,"passthru":false,"label":"Set wired network to DHCP","tooltip":"","color":"","bgcolor":"","icon":"","payload":"-","payloadType":"str","topic":"","x":220,"y":480,"wires":…

@Colin The notification node only has an input while the Show Dialog node has an input and output.

It is the notification node. I just hadn't selected the Show Dialog option in the node settings. Still confused why it's passing the command when pressing cancel (or 'go back')

Ok, you have a node in the flow that looks like it came from node-red-contrib-mdashboard. If you don't have node-red-contrib-mdashboard I assume you made the export when you did have it installed. One of it's nodes was ui_toast which Shows msg.payload as a popup notification or OK / Cancel dialog …

Thank you for your reply. I used the notification node with a switch node after it that passes OK and blocks CANCEL. Works perfectly. Thanks for the help!!

Show dialog node

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zenofmud 17 January 2020 12:30 3

If you post the flow you imported (please read this before posting the flow), we might be able to determing the actual node it is using

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