List of dashboard tab names

[David Harpe]

Hi everyone,

I have a simple system status application where I have several UI dashboards on different tabs and I'd like to cycle through each tab at a preset interval.  I have been successful in doing this with a message node on repeat, a function and the UI Control node. All of that works great so main mission accomplished, but I'd like to make it better/more flexible.

Currently the way I do it is the function node has a hand-coded list of tab names to pass to UI Control. What I'd like to do is grab a list of tab names from somewhere and avoid the hardcoding part. Then I could drop this flow into any application where I need to cycle through all of the dashboard tabs.

Does dashboard expose a list of dashboard tabs in a property somewhere? If so, where?  Is there a list somewhere of everything that dashboard exposes?

Sorry if this is an obvious question...

Thanks,

Dave

[steve rickus]

This is not an obvious question -- it's a good one that I've wondered about, as well. Time to build a flow...

Here's a bit of an ugly hack of an idea... use an http-request node to get the current flow definitions, and filter out only the ui_tab nodes:

From this array of ui_tab nodes, you should be able to build a dynamic list of tabs to iterate through. However, I don't see any way to specify an order to the array -- it seems to be related to what order they were created, but you would have to get the definitive answer from Nick or Dave.

The list of API methods that node-red exposes can be found at https://nodered.org/docs/api/admin/methods/

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Steve