# UI-Table Refresh Issues

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/ui-table-refresh-issues/61087>\
**Category:** Dashboard\
**Tags:** node-red-dashboard\
**Created:** [10 April 2022 21:22 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/ui-table-refresh-issues/61087 "2022-04-10T21:22:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![mightyMinkus](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/mightyminkus/32/59891_2.png) [@mightyMinkus](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/mightyMinkus)\
**Post date:** [10 April 2022 21:22 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/ui-table-refresh-issues/61087/1 "2022-04-10T21:22:39Z")

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Hi all, I know there has been quite a few discussions related to getting the ui-table node to update on new data. I just wanted to share something odd I found and how I got it to work in my case.

I had some rest API data going through a function node to massage the data a bit then straight to the ui-table node. The data would refresh every second and I couldn't get the table to update no matter what I did. However if I copied the payload into a couple inject node, I could toggle the table data no problem.

Maybe this will help somebody in the future.

After some trial and error, I found out that if the message had the property 'socketid', it would not work not matter what, even if it was blank. once I got rid of the 'socketid' property from the message the table would update with each new data sent to it. Easy peasy. Any thoughts on why 'socketid' is doing this?

I'll attach a flow to show what I'm talking about. First time trying this, lets see if it works.

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**Author:** ![Andrei](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/andrei/32/10446_2.png) [@Andrei](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Andrei)\
**Post date:** [11 April 2022 00:18 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/ui-table-refresh-issues/61087/2 "2022-04-11T00:18:49Z")

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> [@mightyMinkus](#):
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> Any thoughts on why 'socketid' is doing this?

Have a look on the solution for below post.

> [@Missing socketID impacts dashboard template](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/missing-socketid-impacts-dashboard-template/43634):
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> Working in a dashboard that has a tab that will be visualized in two (or three) different monitors at the same time (queue control in an hospital sector). I simplified and changed the flow to the minimum size that reproduces the issue. Buttons 1 and 2 do the same thing in a slightly different way. In order to understand the issue you need to open the dashboard in two separate Chrome browsers (can be in the same computer). When button 1 is clicked the patient name will be displayed in t…

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/1X/d073cd938eafa2e558d7c2cd59003b3ef4963033.png) [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [25 April 2022 00:19 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/ui-table-refresh-issues/61087/3 "2022-04-25T00:19:06Z")

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