# Status/dashboard (ui\_text) bug

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/status-dashboard-ui-text-bug/6002>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [20 December 2018 20:04 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/status-dashboard-ui-text-bug/6002 "2018-12-20T20:04:56Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![drmibell](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/drmibell/32/8424_2.png) [@drmibell](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/drmibell)\
**Post date:** [20 December 2018 20:04 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/status-dashboard-ui-text-bug/6002/1 "2018-12-20T20:04:56Z")

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Running NR 0.19.5 and dashboard 2.12.2, this flow throws an error from the `ui_text` node labelled "status": "TypeError: Cannot read property 'toString' of undefined". I have confirmed that there is no error using dashboard 2.11.0. To my surprise, the `ui_text` node labelled "text" has no problem displaying `msg.status.text` from the `change` node. Any idea what is going on?

```auto
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 ![bug](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/2X/9/9f4cce9d050cef45353c71b9af1b7db9e9e3ca17.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![dceejay](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/dceejay/32/38_2.png) [@dceejay](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/dceejay)\
**Post date:** [20 December 2018 21:52 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/status-dashboard-ui-text-bug/6002/2 "2018-12-20T21:52:35Z")

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Hopefully this is the same as the issue reported here [https://github.com/node-red/node-red-dashboard/issues/459](https://github.com/node-red/node-red-dashboard/issues/459)  
and fixed in master

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**Author:** ![drmibell](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/drmibell/32/8424_2.png) [@drmibell](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/drmibell)\
**Post date:** [20 December 2018 21:59 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/status-dashboard-ui-text-bug/6002/3 "2018-12-20T21:59:29Z")

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@dceejay Seems so. As a workaround, I just inserted a `change` node with `msg.payload` set to an empty string ahead of the mis-behaving `ui_text` node, and all's well. Sorry I didn't check the GitHub issues before posting.

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**Author:** ![dceejay](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/dceejay/32/38_2.png) [@dceejay](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/dceejay)\
**Post date:** [20 December 2018 22:01 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/status-dashboard-ui-text-bug/6002/4 "2018-12-20T22:01:53Z")

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no problem.