node-red-node-ui-list 0.3.6
Node-RED Dashboard UI widget node for simple list
A Node-RED widget node for showing a list of items.
Install
Either use the Menu - Manage Palette option to install the node, or run the following command
in your Node-RED user directory - typically ~/.node-red
npm i node-red-node-ui-list
Note: This node uses APIs that require at least Node-RED 0.19 and Node-RED Dashboard 2.10.
Usage
ui-list
node is a UI widget that can be used to display a list of items in the Node-RED dashboard.
An array of Items is passed in by msg.payload
. It consists of objects containing the following properties.
title
- title of the item,description
- description of the item. optional if line type isSingle-line
or action type ismenu
,icon
- URL of icon (optional),icon_name
- Font Awesome 4.7 icon name (optional),icon_unicode
- text to use as icon - useful for unicode symbols like flags, etc (optional).menu
- list of menu items (optional).
If you just need a simple text list then msg.payload
can be a simple array of strings, e.g. ["Item1","Item2","Item3"]
The type of item display can be selected by List Type
selector in the node configuration panel.
An action to be taken for a displayed item can be selected by the Action
selector:
none
- No action is performed,click to send an item
- sends the selected item to output port if clicked,checkbox to send changed item
- sends an item to output port if checkbox is changed. The checkbox state is included in theisChecked
flag of the outputpayload
object,switch to send changed item
- sends an item to output port if switch is changed. The switch state is included in theisChecked
flag of the outputpayload
object,menu to send selected item
- sends an item to output port is item in menu is selected. The selected item is included in theselected
property of the output payload object.
If Allow HTML in displayed text
checkbox is selected, HTML tags can be used in title
and description
.
Icon can be specified by icon
or icon_name
property. icon
specifies URL of icon image. If icon
is null
, blank icon is displayed. icon_name
specifies an icon name of Font Awesome 4.7 icons (e.g. fa-home
).
icon_unicode
specifies text character to use as an icon, useful for displaying unicode symbols like flags, etc.
icon
has precedence over icon_name
and icon_unicode
.
Example
[
{
"id": "ee47c5e8.e17bd",
"type": "tab",
"label": "Example of ui-list",
"disabled": false,
"info": ""
},
{
"id": "93612884.34d35",
"type": "ui_list",
"z": "ee47c5e8.e17bd",
"group": "7e4c65d6.0419cc",
"name": "",
"order": 1,
"width": "6",
"height": "5",
"lineType": "three",
"actionType": "click",
"allowHTML": true,
"x": 290,
"y": 100,
"wires": [
[
"cd592928.56da38"
]
]
},
{
"id": "ccf3e49f.190be",
"type": "inject",
"z": "ee47c5e8.e17bd",
"name": "Fruits",
"topic": "",
"payload": "[{\"title\":\"<b>Apple</b>\",\"description\":\"This is description of <font color=\\\"red\\\"><b>Apple</b></b>.\",\"icon\":\"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Red_Apple.jpg/500px-Red_Apple.jpg\"},{\"title\":\"<b>Banana</b>\",\"description\":\"This is description of <font color=\\\"yellow\\\"><b>Banana</b></font>(no picture).\",\"icon\":null},{\"title\":\"<b>Orange</b>\",\"description\":\"This is description of <font color=\\\"orange\\\"><b>Orange</b></font>.\",\"icon\":\"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Ambersweet_oranges.jpg/440px-Ambersweet_oranges.jpg\"},{\"title\":\"<b>Watermelon</b>\",\"description\":\"This is description of <font color=\\\"green\\\"><b>Watermelon</b></font>.\",\"icon\":\"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Vampire_watermelon.jpg/440px-Vampire_watermelon.jpg\"}]",
"payloadType": "json",
"repeat": "",
"crontab": "",
"once": false,
"onceDelay": 0.1,
"x": 110,
"y": 100,
"wires": [
[
"93612884.34d35"
]
]
},
{
"id": "cd592928.56da38",
"type": "debug",
"z": "ee47c5e8.e17bd",
"name": "",
"active": true,
"tosidebar": true,
"console": false,
"tostatus": false,
"complete": "false",
"x": 450,
"y": 100,
"wires": []
},
{
"id": "503b6c22.32a6fc",
"type": "inject",
"z": "ee47c5e8.e17bd",
"name": "WiFi",
"topic": "",
"payload": "[{\"title\":\"No WiFi Signal\",\"description\":\"Lost network connection\",\"icon_name\":\"signal_wifi_0_bar\"},{\"title\":\"Weak WiFi Signal\",\"description\":\"May lose network connection\",\"icon_name\":\"signal_wifi_2_bar\"},{\"title\":\"Strong WiFi Signal\",\"description\":\"Connected to network\",\"icon_name\":\"signal_wifi_4_bar\"}]",
"payloadType": "json",
"repeat": "",
"crontab": "",
"once": false,
"onceDelay": 0.1,
"x": 110,
"y": 180,
"wires": [
[
"4783aeef.e2332"
]
]
},
{
"id": "f46b267.9f03558",
"type": "ui_list",
"z": "ee47c5e8.e17bd",
"group": "7e4c65d6.0419cc",
"name": "",
"order": 3,
"width": "4",
"height": "7",
"lineType": "one",
"actionType": "check",
"allowHTML": false,
"x": 290,
"y": 260,
"wires": [
[
"ea6d6cbc.9770a8"
]
]
},
{
"id": "ceb5f753.ed31a8",
"type": "inject",
"z": "ee47c5e8.e17bd",
"name": "Day of Week",
"topic": "",
"payload": "[{\"title\":\"Sunday\",\"isChecked\":true},{\"title\":\"Monday\"},{\"title\":\"Tuesday\"},{\"title\":\"Wednesday\"},{\"title\":\"Thursday\"},{\"title\":\"Friday\"},{\"title\":\"Saturday\",\"isChecked\":true}]",
"payloadType": "json",
"repeat": "",
"crontab": "",
"once": false,
"onceDelay": 0.1,
"x": 130,
"y": 260,
"wires": [
[
"f46b267.9f03558"
]
]
},
{
"id": "ea6d6cbc.9770a8",
"type": "debug",
"z": "ee47c5e8.e17bd",
"name": "",
"active": true,
"tosidebar": true,
"console": false,
"tostatus": false,
"complete": "false",
"x": 450,
"y": 260,
"wires": []
},
{
"id": "4783aeef.e2332",
"type": "ui_list",
"z": "ee47c5e8.e17bd",
"group": "7e4c65d6.0419cc",
"name": "",
"order": 2,
"width": "6",
"height": "5",
"lineType": "two",
"actionType": "none",
"allowHTML": true,
"x": 290,
"y": 180,
"wires": [
[
"c75bdf1a.71a15"
]
]
},
{
"id": "c75bdf1a.71a15",
"type": "debug",
"z": "ee47c5e8.e17bd",
"name": "",
"active": true,
"tosidebar": true,
"console": false,
"tostatus": false,
"complete": "false",
"x": 450,
"y": 180,
"wires": []
},
{
"id": "b3639cb1.702ff",
"type": "ui_list",
"z": "ee47c5e8.e17bd",
"group": "7e4c65d6.0419cc",
"name": "",
"order": 3,
"width": "4",
"height": "4",
"lineType": "one",
"actionType": "switch",
"allowHTML": false,
"x": 290,
"y": 340,
"wires": [
[
"b7d652df.067b4"
]
]
},
{
"id": "640d11fe.215c28",
"type": "inject",
"z": "ee47c5e8.e17bd",
"name": "Drink",
"topic": "",
"payload": "[{\"title\":\"Coffee\",\"isChecked\":true},{\"title\":\"Tea\",\"isChecked\":false},{\"title\":\"Green Tea\",\"isChecked\":true}]",
"payloadType": "json",
"repeat": "",
"crontab": "",
"once": false,
"onceDelay": 0.1,
"x": 110,
"y": 340,
"wires": [
[
"b3639cb1.702ff"
]
]
},
{
"id": "b7d652df.067b4",
"type": "debug",
"z": "ee47c5e8.e17bd",
"name": "",
"active": true,
"tosidebar": true,
"console": false,
"tostatus": false,
"complete": "false",
"x": 450,
"y": 340,
"wires": []
},
{
"id": "f577f7cb.d19068",
"type": "ui_list",
"z": "ee47c5e8.e17bd",
"group": "7e4c65d6.0419cc",
"name": "",
"order": 3,
"width": "6",
"height": "2",
"lineType": "one",
"actionType": "menu",
"allowHTML": false,
"x": 290,
"y": 420,
"wires": [
[
"ad3b8b.58131c78"
]
]
},
{
"id": "f0859d08.93b8a8",
"type": "inject",
"z": "ee47c5e8.e17bd",
"name": "Move",
"topic": "",
"payload": "[{\"title\":\"Direction\",\"menu\":[\"East\",\"West\",\"South\",\"North\"]},{\"title\":\"Speed\",\"menu\":[\"High\",\"Middle\",\"Low\"]}]",
"payloadType": "json",
"repeat": "",
"crontab": "",
"once": false,
"onceDelay": 0.1,
"x": 110,
"y": 420,
"wires": [
[
"f577f7cb.d19068"
]
]
},
{
"id": "ad3b8b.58131c78",
"type": "debug",
"z": "ee47c5e8.e17bd",
"name": "",
"active": true,
"tosidebar": true,
"console": false,
"tostatus": false,
"complete": "false",
"x": 450,
"y": 420,
"wires": []
},
{
"id": "7e4c65d6.0419cc",
"type": "ui_group",
"z": "",
"name": "Default",
"tab": "2f52ec48.3a82cc",
"disp": true,
"width": "12",
"collapse": false
},
{
"id": "2f52ec48.3a82cc",
"type": "ui_tab",
"z": "",
"name": "List",
"icon": "dashboard"
}
]