now what do you want to do after that.
I don't want to do that, @Navybrandon wants that as per his topic ?
yes I did! this helped a lot now to add more arrays!
The goal of having you do this instead of just pasting an output is to help you see how
arrays of objects of objects of arrays inside of objects and arrays are structured.
If you can code it or at least manipulate the code then you can move forward in Javascript
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Above is the code with 16 arrays. learning something new loving this.
nice! ok so i take it you have some items in that object array that you want to sort for .....
please explain what you want to do now. I'm reading the start of your post again at this moment.
ok so we want it in a dash board like i did in a previous thread.....
do you want all of that data in the array or only spacific data that matches a certain criteria to be listed
do you want it in a drop down, a list, a bunch of buttons ?
sorry i was dragged away. on the dashboard it would be amazing for the drop down to have only the last value type and instance number for each array. from pic below i would want to see
array [0] type: 8 instance: 532897
array[1] type:2 instance: 3001587
and so fourth depending on the incoming arrays that vary from pay load to payload.
am currently writing the start of the code you will need.
I will start it like I had you finish off the objects in the array. Give me 15-20min to get the first chunk done 
Thank you, I appreciate that you help in ways that I still can do stuff. therefore I learn it lol!
based on the link earlier. i have copied the read part in your flow. I figured this would make your life easier.
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I understand you want the user to see array [0] type: 8 instance: 532897 in the drop down list
but when they click it what value do you want to come out in msg.payload ? the instance # of 532897 ?
well that data would move to another flow which then reads that device to get the name. so in this case when they click on that value it sends two msg payloads 1 for type other for instance.
I know this is not what you want but wanted to show ya im getting there
Still pecking at it
You can't send two separate msg when they click the button. However you can send a object
I have the base done
Is this what your looking for?
and here it is working in the dashboard
Let me clean up the dashboard and send you a flow
the code in the function for thoes reading this entire thread and don't want to import a flow
//input data of msg.payload1.value.values that is an array of object to the var name array_of_objects
var array_of_objects = msg.payload1.value.values;
//map the array to compare each value stored inside each index
var formated_array_of_objects = array_of_objects.map((current_element_inside_index_number, index_number) =>{
var reformatted_Obj = {};
// please notice what is happening here. The array.map is mapping one at a time each index_number in the array
// as each one is pulled it is edited whit the line below. then it returs the new array created
// its a real small ammount of code but it does allot
reformatted_Obj['Array [' + index_number + ']' + ' type: ' + current_element_inside_index_number.value.type + ' instance: ' + current_element_inside_index_number.value.instance] = {"type":current_element_inside_index_number.value.type,"instance":current_element_inside_index_number.value.instance};
return reformatted_Obj;
// payload1.value.values[0].value.instance
// payload1.value.values[0].value.type
});
msg.payload = formated_array_of_objects;
return msg;
please import this
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Now this is going to be one hell of a list to scroll through in a drop down.
I've left out the code where you will separate it into separate lists of 10 in the drop down.
you need to make it only list 10 at a time into separate msg.payloads
Hint >>>
index_number
if index_number is greater than or eq to 10 then ..................
