# Some nodes not showing in 'Manage palette'

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/some-nodes-not-showing-in-manage-palette/76817>\
**Category:** Core Development\
**Created:** [22 March 2023 11:39 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/some-nodes-not-showing-in-manage-palette/76817 "2023-03-22T11:39:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![zenofmud](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/zenofmud/32/316_2.png) [@zenofmud](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/zenofmud)\
**Post date:** [22 March 2023 11:39 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/some-nodes-not-showing-in-manage-palette/76817/1 "2023-03-22T11:39:32Z")

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I have been unsuccessful in getting node-red-mcu to work (problems installing all the prereq's on my Mac) so I've decided to install it for the time being.

So I went to the sidebar option 'Manage palette' and searched for it and it doesn't show up.  
I went to .node-red/node\_modules and it is not listed. It turns out it is in  
`.node-red/node_modules/@ralphwetzel/node-red-mcu-plugin/node-red-mcu`

Shouldn't there be away to locate nodes using thIs type of format via the 'manage palette' option?

(I've just deleted the `@ralphwetzel` folder to accomplish my needs)

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**Author:** ![knolleary](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/knolleary/32/3_2.png) [@knolleary](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/knolleary)\
**Post date:** [22 March 2023 11:59 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/some-nodes-not-showing-in-manage-palette/76817/2 "2023-03-22T11:59:55Z")

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The Manage Palette feature only lists modules that contribute nodes to the palette.

If `node-red-mcu` is a plugin that doesn't include any nodes, it won't show up. This is a known limitation and sat somewhere on a backlog to be looked at.

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**Author:** ![ralphwetzel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/ralphwetzel/32/53713_2.png) [@ralphwetzel](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/ralphwetzel)\
**Post date:** [22 March 2023 14:51 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/some-nodes-not-showing-in-manage-palette/76817/3 "2023-03-22T14:51:50Z")

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@zenofmud

Hi Paul,  
You need to distinguish two topics here ... or perhaps better: We have to write better documentation to distinguish the two topics:

The `node-red-mcu-plugin` pulls in the `node-red-mcu` source tree from GitHub as part of it's installation procedure. It yet doesn't - by intention - install any (contributed) nodes from the `node-red-mcu` package! Therefore it's correct that they don't show up in the palette...

You have to (!) install them (in the sense of "those you think you need") separately from either the `node-red-mcu` folder within the plugins directory tree or from the `node-red-mcu` repository at GitHub.

Whatever way you choose, changing the path of the plugin will certainly create additional issues...

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/1X/d073cd938eafa2e558d7c2cd59003b3ef4963033.png) [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [21 May 2023 14:52 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/some-nodes-not-showing-in-manage-palette/76817/4 "2023-05-21T14:52:01Z")

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