Ui_spacer notice on deploy

Dashboard
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I was using the Dashboard layout editor (only my 2nd time) and 2 things happened; i) the layout manager placed a ton (like 25) of unnecessary spacer 1x1 in the layout (as shown in debug), so I removed them (actual UI layout is still fine) and; ii) I keep getting the following notice every time I deploy. I have looked (I believe) everywhere (debug layout) and I cannot find these errant spacers that keep driving the notice.

dceejay, any suggestions on how best to track this down?
spacer error

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Have you searched for them using the main search dialog (Ctrl-F)?

They should be listed in the Configuration Nodes sidebar in the editor (not the Dashboard sidebar).

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Never thought to look there. And yes, there they were. I removed them and the notice has disappeared. Thanks so much Nick.

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I faced the same problem after I updated to Node-RED 2.2.0. Each time I deployed I got the warning that I had 403 nodes not properly configured. I found out that the problem was with the ui_spacer nodes. I got 187 ui_spacer configuration nodes within a flow that dont even use dashboard nodes. After I disabled all 403 ui_spacer nodes problem was gone.

Question:
Is there a way to delete all these 403 ui_spacer nodes without doubleclick everyone of them in the sidebar and delete them from there?

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  • Open config tab

  • Select unused
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  • Select one of them

  • [Keyboard] Ctrl + a to select all.

  • [Keyboard] Delete

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Thanks for the reply, hotNipi!

I'm not sure what the problem is with my ui_spacer nodes. It seems like I have no unused nodes. Or a lot of hidden nodes?

Shot

My dashboard works fine but if I change one thing on my dashboard I get a new warning with nodes that are not properly configured.

If I select the Info tab and select the flow containing the spacer nodes I'm not able to delete all from there.

Shot2
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I never seen this behaviour before :thinking:

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Does anyone know if this was fixed in 2.2.1 released today? I did not see it on the change log and have been holding off upgrading because of this.

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It should be...

Fix node validation to be applied to config node (#3397)

Please test and let everyone know.

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There is also a PR in for the Dashboard project also. Currently not quite released to npm yet.

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