Dear All, I am on a very steep learning curve here. I am experienced in C and .NET (the VB kind), however have now ventured into the world of micro-controllers and over the last few weeks have had to learn: Linux/Python Arduino IDE/CSharp (+ Libraries) ESP8266 MQTT NodeRed And now JSCRIPT! …

Don't struggle, just read infopages of nodes and configure objects and nodes. Basic cases as this one are described in info pages very clearly. [{"id":"b914b808.ae73f8","type":"config","z":"37e0d918.b92d36","name":"Setup Global Colour Pallette","properties":[{"p":"colours","pt":"global","to":"[{\"W…

You need to surround your flow in 3 backticks in order for the forum software not to modify your flow

[image] StantonRM3: And now JSCRIPT! :confounded: javascript not JSCRIPT :upside_down_face: Your flow is not impotable. Please read this thread and edit your prior post.

Cheers zenofmd, lets try this one! :slight_smile:

PS: Please ignore the code in the [F:Produce Global List of Colours] as I've been hacking and hacking at it. Nothing is working for me.

Are you talking about the function 'Produce Global List of Colours'? Because theere are some issues with it. don't use 'print' if you want to debug a function node use node.warn(...) (see https://nodered.org/docs/user-guide/writing-functions#api-reference ) so if you wanted to display a variable v…

Thank you both and hotNipi, you are a star!!! :slight_smile: Its easy when you know how.

I tried this zeno, and can see I missed out the ' around the variable name. Lesson learned! :slight_smile:

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[SOLVED] Newbe struggling with JSON Global Arrays

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javascript not JSCRIPT
Your flow is not impotable. Please read this thread and edit your prior post.

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[SOLVED] Newbe struggling with JSON Global Arrays

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