# Stuck using config node multiple times
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/stuck-using-config-node-multiple-times/56477
**Category:** Developing Nodes
**Created:** [11 January 2022 15:53 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/stuck-using-config-node-multiple-times/56477 "2022-01-11T15:53:45Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@danube](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/danube)
#### Post date: [11 January 2022 15:53 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/stuck-using-config-node-multiple-times/56477/1 "2022-01-11T15:53:45Z")
Hey there! I'm stuck understanding one simple mechanism. Please enlighten me.
I use a config node and as far as I learned from the docs, I get the content with RED.nodes.getNode. So I do:
Let me describe the situation with the option "bool". In JS, I do:
```auto
module.exports = function(RED) {
function configNode(config) {
RED.nodes.createNode(this,config)
this.config = config
}
RED.nodes.registerType("mytemplate-config",configNode);
function workingNode(config) {
RED.nodes.createNode(this,config)
let parms = RED.nodes.getNode(config.config)
...
RED.nodes.registerType("mytemplate",workingNode);
}
...
```
Which gives me the console output:
```auto
configNode {
id: 'f476dc6e65b0a93d',
type: 'mytemplate-config',
z: undefined,
g: undefined,
_closeCallbacks: [],
_inputCallback: null,
_inputCallbacks: null,
name: 'myparms',
wires: [],
_wireCount: 0,
send: [Function: NOOP_SEND],
config: {
id: 'f476dc6e65b0a93d',
type: 'mytemplate-config',
name: 'myparms',
valueType: 'bool',
value: 'true',
_users: ['01a83f7c216f97b8', 'd2ef1c167664e574']
}
}
```
One parameter field config.value is a typedInput allowing ["bool","num","str"]. I learned that "bool" and "num" are also stored as strings and I have to convert it first. Now in JS I do:
```auto
...
if (parms.config.valueType === "bool") {
parms.config.value = parms.config.value === "true"
}
...
```
Resulting in:
```auto
valueType: 'bool',
value: true,
```
Great. But when calling the node a second time, it fails. If I add a console.log before and after conversion, I see that the second node, before conversion, holds the value from the conversion of the first node.
```auto
BEFORE CONVERSION
configNode {
...
config: {
...
valueType: 'bool',
value: 'true',
...
}
}
AFTER CONVERSION
configNode {
...
config: {
...
valueType: 'bool',
value: true,
...
}
}
BEFORE CONVERSION
configNode {
...
config: {
...
valueType: 'bool',
value: true,
...
}
}
AFTER CONVERSION
configNode {
...
config: {
...
valueType: 'bool',
value: false,
...
}
}
```
Find the complete code here: [GitHub - danube/template](https://github.com/danube/template)
Doh... kinda hard to explain, hope you got it. Now may you guide me to the right path please... Regards! Thomas
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### Author:  [@TotallyInformation](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/TotallyInformation)
#### Post date: [11 January 2022 16:55 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/stuck-using-config-node-multiple-times/56477/2 "2022-01-11T16:55:05Z")
Hi Thomas, you could take the easy way out and change your test to:
```auto
...
if (parms.config.valueType === "bool") {
parms.config.value = ( parms.config.value === "true" || parms.config.value === true )
}
...
```
Doubtless there are more elegant ways but that seems simple, and direct if a little brutal. 🙂
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### Author:  [@danube](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/danube)
#### Post date: [12 January 2022 06:27 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/stuck-using-config-node-multiple-times/56477/3 "2022-01-12T06:27:55Z")
Hi and thanks for taking time!
There is just one major thing I don't understand. I call the same node twice with the same configuration node(!). In the code I create a copy of the config with
```auto
let parms = RED.nodes.getNode(config.config)
```
and then do the manipulation:
```auto
parms.config.value = parms.config.value === "true"
```
This works for the first call of the node, where the type is being converted from STRING 'true' to BOOL true. But on the second call, I see a BOOL before conversion. Remember: Same code, same config node! For some weird reason it seems to me that the second node call holds the value converted by the first call.
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### Author:  [@knolleary](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/knolleary)
#### Post date: [12 January 2022 07:31 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/stuck-using-config-node-multiple-times/56477/4 "2022-01-12T07:31:49Z")
If you modify `params` then you are modifying the config node and any other users of that node will see the change.
It would be cleaner to to any property validation/cleanup in the config node itself so all consumers of it will benefit and don't need to do it themselves.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [13 March 2022 07:32 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/stuck-using-config-node-multiple-times/56477/5 "2022-03-13T07:32:38Z")
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