Two timed messages to change icons

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Hello,

I am trying to display a Fontawesome icon, and change that icon after a couple of seconds within the same flow. For instance, from a spinning state to a non-spinning state. I know how to show the icon with the change node:

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When i try to change msg.icon with a trigger node right after the change node, it will always put the new icon name string in the payload and not in msg.icon, like so:

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Any suggestions on how to solve this?

Gr.

Ed.

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I think the trigger node is only capable of setting the payload.
You can do it with a Delay node though. Send the first message to the ui node, and also send it to a delay node. After the delay node use another Change node to set the new message and send that to the ui.

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Thank you Colin,

Very good suggestion. Just tried it and works like a charm.

Gr.

Ed.