# Uibuilder v6.5.0-Dev - updates

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/uibuilder-v6-5-0-dev-updates/79546>\
**Category:** Share Your Nodes\
**Tags:** uibuilder\
**Created:** [2 July 2023 19:44 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/uibuilder-v6-5-0-dev-updates/79546 "2023-07-02T19:44:35Z")\
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**Post date:** [2 July 2023 19:44 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/uibuilder-v6-5-0-dev-updates/79546/1 "2023-07-02T19:44:35Z")

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Hi, been having a break from major coding, partly to recharge and partly because life has been getting in the way.

But I managed to put in a spell this weekend, still working towards a v6.5.0 release (which will become v7 with a new minimal node.js version if Node-RED manages to get its release through the door!)

As always, you can follow along by installing from GitHub using the `v6.5.0` branch.

For the `uib-element` zero-code node:

- Added a passthrough option. This will pass the `msg.payload` which is normally removed by this node. The client library also updated so that an input msg with both msg.\_ui and msg.payload properties will trigger `onChange` processing to allow you to do further processing in front-end code if you wish to. You can, of course also manually add a msg.payload separately if you want to.
- Added support for textarea and select (drop-downs) inputs.
- Fixed the return values for checkboxes.

For the uibuilder client library:

- A new `uibuilder.notify` function. This uses the browser `Notification` API to utilise operating system notifications (AKA "Toasts"). The function also has an option that lets you link to the `eventSend` function to allow some user interaction to be reported back to Node-RED with a single line of code.
- Improvements to the `eventSend` function allowing for checkboxes and adding input field types to the returned details.

`uib-brand.css` updates:

- `.compact` and `button.compact` classes added.
- The CSS now has a minified version which you should use in your code.
- A whole bunch more CSS variables added to allow you more control.

And the usual bug-fixes and documentation improvements.

As always, the full list of changes is in the CHANGELOG.md file.

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**Post date:** [3 July 2023 16:16 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/uibuilder-v6-5-0-dev-updates/79546/2 "2023-07-03T16:16:06Z")

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Another day, another quick update.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/3X/5/c/5cdca677b18da2d9fc0f1a177c31046748067f5f.png)

A new dynamically created web page that shows all of the uibuilder instances and provides links to them.

This page is user-facing not admin-facing and so is accessible to everyone. I'll be adding a switch to settings.js so that you can turn it off if you want to.

To support this page, 2 new optional properties have been added to the uibuilder node. You will find them on the Advanced tab in the Editor panel. The 2 properties are "title" which gives a short description - you can see it on the same line as the instance name in the screenshot. "descr" which gives a longer description that, if supplied, is shown underneath the main entry.

In the example, you can see descriptions added to 2 of the example flows available in the library. I will update the examples to include these. At the bottom, you can see a couple of instances that don't have any descriptions.

The page is not updated dynamically (without user input), if you add a new endpoint app or update descriptions, simply reload the page.