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Better worldmap integration

Open joepavitt opened this issue 1 year ago • 0 comments

Description

A very popular node in Node-RED is the https://flows.nodered.org/node/node-red-contrib-web-worldmap

It comes packaged with a ui_worldmap node for use with Dashboard 1.0, providing a dedicated page/tab and easy navigation to/from the endpoint.

Currently, for Dashboard 2.0, the workaround is to add a ui-template with an iframe in it. Having to define custom CSS, set group width/height manually, and pointing to the /worldmap endpoint. This is a painful UX and not very low-code friendly.

A short, first iteration could be to implement https://github.com/FlowFuse/node-red-dashboard/issues/387 which would at least provide a "worldmap" option in the navigation, however, when moving to the worldmap page, there wouldn't be an easy way back out again to the rest of the Dashboard.

Another option here is to implement https://github.com/FlowFuse/node-red-dashboard/issues/835 which would provide an easier way of stretching worldmap content to a full-screen view, mimicking that of the base/default worldmap node, but still be contained within a Dashboard page for the purpose of navigation.

Have you provided an initial effort estimate for this issue?

I have provided an initial effort estimate

joepavitt avatar May 08 '24 08:05 joepavitt