# Unable to use - node-red-dashboard-2-ui-flowviewer
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/unable-to-use-node-red-dashboard-2-ui-flowviewer/95821
**Category:** Dashboard
**Tags:** dashboard-2
**Created:** [6 March 2025 09:25 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/unable-to-use-node-red-dashboard-2-ui-flowviewer/95821 "2025-03-06T09:25:21Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@SandeepA](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/SandeepA)
#### Post date: [6 March 2025 09:25 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/unable-to-use-node-red-dashboard-2-ui-flowviewer/95821/1 "2025-03-06T09:25:22Z")
Hi - I see a new node released
> **[@flowfuse/node-red-dashboard-2-ui-flowviewer](https://flows.nodered.org/node/@flowfuse/node-red-dashboard-2-ui-flowviewer)**
>
> A Node-RED Dashboard 2.0 widget that allows you to visualise Node-RED flows in your Dashboard using FlowFuse's flow-renderer
I have successfully managed to install it.
I took one of my existing flows.json and sent it via. msg.ui\_update.flow
I took one of the flows into a json and sent it via. msg.ui\_update.flow
I tried put them into these into the nodes - input.
None of the options work.
The dashboard simply doesnt show the flow.
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### Author:  [@Steve-Mcl](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Steve-Mcl)
#### Post date: [6 March 2025 09:37 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/unable-to-use-node-red-dashboard-2-ui-flowviewer/95821/2 "2025-03-06T09:37:07Z")
Works fine for me.
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### Author:  [@Colin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Colin)
#### Post date: [6 March 2025 09:38 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/unable-to-use-node-red-dashboard-2-ui-flowviewer/95821/3 "2025-03-06T09:38:16Z")
Can you post a simple flow that exhibits the problem? Put a short flow in an Inject node, or setup the flow in a function node if that is easier for you, and export that with the flowviewer node and paste here. Then we can try it for ourselves.
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### Author:  [@SandeepA](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/SandeepA)
#### Post date: [8 March 2025 07:35 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/unable-to-use-node-red-dashboard-2-ui-flowviewer/95821/4 "2025-03-08T07:35:46Z")
Please find details
Snapshot of flow
Snapshot of inject node
Snapshof what is being injected.
Flow itself
```auto
[
{
"id": "4215629d9434a8d0",
"type": "ui-flowviewer",
"z": "8c51c2e3b8be9323",
"name": "Flow Viewer",
"group": "f7474bf3bc523d1c",
"order": 1,
"width": "17",
"flow": "[{ \"id\": \"442b5c2b006f3093\", \"type\": \"tab\", \"label\": \"Test flow\", \"disabled\": false, \"info\": \"\", \"env\": [] }, { \"id\": \"a4083f2cf9cbb97e\", \"type\": \"inject\", \"z\": \"442b5c2b006f3093\", \"name\": \"\", \"props\": [{ \"p\": \"payload\" }, { \"p\": \"topic\", \"vt\": \"str\" }], \"repeat\": \"\", \"crontab\": \"\", \"once\": false, \"onceDelay\": 0.1, \"topic\": \"\", \"payload\": \"\", \"payloadType\": \"date\", \"x\": 320, \"y\": 160, \"wires\": [[ \"9d436e020a6768f9\"] ] }, { \"id\": \"9d436e020a6768f9\", \"type\": \"function\", \"z\": \"442b5c2b006f3093\", \"name\": \"function 2\", \"func\": \"\\nreturn msg;\", \"outputs\": 1, \"timeout\": 0, \"noerr\": 0, \"initialize\": \"\", \"finalize\": \"\", \"libs\": [], \"x\": 580, \"y\": 160, \"wires\": [[] ] } ]",
"height": "10",
"x": 870,
"y": 980,
"wires": []
},
{
"id": "53aba9752d327728",
"type": "inject",
"z": "8c51c2e3b8be9323",
"name": "",
"props": [
{
"p": "payload"
},
{
"p": "ui_update.flow",
"v": "[{ \"id\": \"442b5c2b006f3093\", \"type\": \"tab\", \"label\": \"Test flow\", \"disabled\": false, \"info\": \"\", \"env\": [] }, { \"id\": \"a4083f2cf9cbb97e\", \"type\": \"inject\", \"z\": \"442b5c2b006f3093\", \"name\": \"\", \"props\": [{ \"p\": \"payload\" }, { \"p\": \"topic\", \"vt\": \"str\" }], \"repeat\": \"\", \"crontab\": \"\", \"once\": false, \"onceDelay\": 0.1, \"topic\": \"\", \"payload\": \"\", \"payloadType\": \"date\", \"x\": 320, \"y\": 160, \"wires\": [[ \"9d436e020a6768f9\"] ] }, { \"id\": \"9d436e020a6768f9\", \"type\": \"function\", \"z\": \"442b5c2b006f3093\", \"name\": \"function 2\", \"func\": \"\\nreturn msg;\", \"outputs\": 1, \"timeout\": 0, \"noerr\": 0, \"initialize\": \"\", \"finalize\": \"\", \"libs\": [], \"x\": 580, \"y\": 160, \"wires\": [[] ] } ]",
"vt": "json"
}
],
"repeat": "",
"crontab": "",
"once": false,
"onceDelay": 0.1,
"topic": "",
"payload": "",
"payloadType": "date",
"x": 480,
"y": 980,
"wires": [
[
"4215629d9434a8d0"
]
]
},
{
"id": "f7474bf3bc523d1c",
"type": "ui-group",
"name": "FlowVIewer",
"page": "d27c4567dd9e63ea",
"width": "18",
"height": 1,
"order": 1,
"showTitle": true,
"className": "",
"visible": "true",
"disabled": "false",
"groupType": "default"
},
{
"id": "d27c4567dd9e63ea",
"type": "ui-page",
"name": "Page New",
"ui": "063c07e4a60e9f2f",
"path": "/pageN",
"icon": "home",
"layout": "grid",
"theme": "332c726ffc8c1d43",
"breakpoints": [
{
"name": "Default",
"px": "0",
"cols": "3"
},
{
"name": "Tablet",
"px": "576",
"cols": "6"
},
{
"name": "Small Desktop",
"px": "768",
"cols": "9"
},
{
"name": "Desktop",
"px": "1024",
"cols": "12"
}
],
"order": 1,
"className": "",
"visible": "true",
"disabled": "false"
},
{
"id": "063c07e4a60e9f2f",
"type": "ui-base",
"name": "recon",
"path": "/dashboard",
"includeClientData": true,
"acceptsClientConfig": [
"ui-notification",
"ui-control"
],
"showPathInSidebar": false,
"headerContent": "page",
"titleBarStyle": "default",
"notificationDisplayTime": 5
},
{
"id": "332c726ffc8c1d43",
"type": "ui-theme",
"name": "VMTheme",
"colors": {
"surface": "#111111",
"primary": "#cc1c82",
"bgPage": "#111111",
"groupBg": "#eeeeee",
"groupOutline": "#555555"
},
"sizes": {
"pagePadding": "12px",
"groupGap": "6px",
"groupBorderRadius": "4px",
"widgetGap": "6px"
}
}
]
```
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### Author:  [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [7 April 2025 07:36 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/unable-to-use-node-red-dashboard-2-ui-flowviewer/95821/5 "2025-04-07T07:36:25Z")
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