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waqaslam
waqaslam

Reputation: 68177

Text from dashboard not showing sub-property from payload

I've been using dashboard's Text node to show msg.payload.time in web-ui without any issues. However, I recently updated my dashboard to version 2.3.10 and now my Text node is not showing anything.

This is my data model:

{
  "topic": "agent/last-download",
  "payload": {
      "time": "2017-05-15 16:48:43",
      "name": "dummy name",
      "path": "/mnt/externalDrive/dummyFolder"
  },
  "qos": 0,
  "retain": true,
  "_topic": "agent/last-download",
  "_msgid": "1c476895.e3b897"
}

This is how I'm setting Value format:

{{msg.payload.time}}

When I output msg.payload.time to debug node, it works fine. Or if I set msg.payload to Text then it also works but dumps complete payload as text - which is not my requirement. I've also tested setting msg.topic, msg._msgid and etc. to Text and they all work fine.

Any idea why the behavior is changed? or Is there any other way to retrieve payload's sub values?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 177

Answers (1)

knolleary
knolleary

Reputation: 10117

This is a regression in behaviour in the 2.3.10.

Until a fix is released, you can add a Change node ahead of the ui_text node to move msg.payload.time to msg.payload and the value will be displayed.

Upvotes: 1

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