Text Input (date) sends value 3 times

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Edit - I changed the title. At first I thought it only happens if I set flow context, but nope.

If I select 31st December with this flow (beware of importing it, your dashboard 2 may become broke)

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[{"id":"e5d957b7e23cc99c","type":"ui-text-input","z":"654f55124d2a7bb4","group":"e98980ce6b5e6c07","name":"Input date","label":"First date","order":0,"width":"3","height":"1","topic":"topic","topicType":"msg","mode":"date","tooltip":"","delay":300,"passthru":true,"sendOnDelay":false,"sendOnBlur":true,"sendOnEnter":true,"className":"","clearable":false,"sendOnClear":false,"icon":"","iconPosition":"left","iconInnerPosition":"inside","x":560,"y":480,"wires":[["431ee5c22c68c030"]]},{"id":"431ee5c22c68c030","type":"debug","z":"654f55124d2a7bb4","name":"Selected date","active":true,"tosidebar":true,"console":false,"tostatus":false,"complete":"payload","targetType":"msg","statusVal":"","statusType":"auto","x":740,"y":480,"wires":[]},{"id":"e98980ce6b5e6c07","type":"ui-group","name":"Group1","page":"5aa4fd64330a7f73","width":"12","height":"1","order":1,"showTitle":true,"className":"","visible":"true","disabled":"false"},{"id":"5aa4fd64330a7f73","type":"ui-page","name":"This is ui-page /page1","ui":"d45641ed6d39fea1","path":"/page1","icon":"home","layout":"grid","theme":"0d92c765bfad87e6","order":1,"className":"","visible":"true","disabled":"false"},{"id":"d45641ed6d39fea1","type":"ui-base","name":"This is my ui-base","path":"/dashboard","includeClientData":true,"acceptsClientConfig":["ui-notification","ui-control"],"showPathInSidebar":false,"showPageTitle":true,"navigationStyle":"default","titleBarStyle":"default"},{"id":"0d92c765bfad87e6","type":"ui-theme","name":"Basic Blue Theme","colors":{"surface":"#4d58ff","primary":"#0094ce","bgPage":"#eeeeee","groupBg":"#ffffff","groupOutline":"#cccccc"},"sizes":{"pagePadding":"12px","groupGap":"12px","groupBorderRadius":"4px","widgetGap":"12px"}}]

The debug usually but not inevitably shows the date 3 times
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What am I doing wrong?
This is the input node config:

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ps
You get a shedload of additional stuff when you export a single dashboard 2 widget. If only there was a way to export (or import) it without it's page, base, tab, group, etc, etc!

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You can isolate just the node you want to copy from the JSON like this:

[{"id":"e5d957b7e23cc99c","type":"ui-text-input","z":"654f55124d2a7bb4","group":"e98980ce6b5e6c07","name":"Input date","label":"First date","order":0,"width":"3","height":"1","topic":"topic","topicType":"msg","mode":"date","tooltip":"","delay":300,"passthru":true,"sendOnDelay":false,"sendOnBlur":true,"sendOnEnter":true,"className":"","clearable":false,"sendOnClear":false,"icon":"","iconPosition":"left","iconInnerPosition":"inside","x":560,"y":480,"wires":[["431ee5c22c68c030"]]}]

That should allow importing just that node but without the configuration nodes. Then you can select the Group you want it to be in, in the nodes edit dialog.

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It is likely sending additional messages because you have the check-boxes selected to do that. When set only to delay X ms it only sends one message after a very short or 0 milliseconds if you set it that way.

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Ah. So that's why there's a scrollbar on the config screen!
Actually I had "Focus leave" and "Press enter" ticked (the default) and I didn't press enter.
But after changing it to "After 300ms" it sends only once.

I don't understand why it sends it 3 times with those options ticked.
However it does explain why the dashboard was not getting refreshed until I switched browser tabs - the tab didn't lose focus (until I switched to the editor tab to see the debug, and back again).
Why is this option the default?
"I want you to send this input but not until I switch to another of my browser tabs" seems of limited use.

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Focus leave just means the mouse has interacted with something other than your text input. So, changing tab would fire it, but so would selecting another text input, or clicking a button for example

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