# Show palette items conditionally

**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/show-palette-items-conditionally/11308
**Category:** Core Development
**Created:** [20 May 2019 05:02 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/show-palette-items-conditionally/11308 "2019-05-20T05:02:58Z")
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### Author: ![mvidhya86](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mvidhya86](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/mvidhya86)
#### Post date: [20 May 2019 05:02 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/show-palette-items-conditionally/11308/1 "2019-05-20T05:02:58Z")

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Do we have any option to load palette dynamically, based on some conditions, enable few items (nodes) in palette

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### Author: ![TotallyInformation](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/totallyinformation/32/31_2.png) [@TotallyInformation](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/TotallyInformation)
#### Post date: [20 May 2019 20:44 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/show-palette-items-conditionally/11308/2 "2019-05-20T20:44:00Z")

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The palette is loaded once at startup and can't then be changed except via the palette manager or equivalent API that (un-)installs packages.

You can, however, amend the settings.js file which has a setting to disable nodes if I remember correctly. It wouldn't be hard to change from a fixed list to a dynamic one but you would, of course, have to restart Node-RED to pick up any changes.