FlowFuse / FlowFuse/node-red-dashboard

Enabling Custom User Input in Dashboard 2.0 Dropdown for msg Payload Transmission

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### Description

I have an API that retrieves employee information based on their ID. I would like to implement a lookup feature using a Dropdown or Form component.

Since there are tens of thousands of employee records, it's not feasible to preload all options into the Dropdown. Instead, I want to allow users to input an ID directly into the Dropdown field. This ID should then be passed via msg.payload to trigger further processing — for example, using an HTTP Request node to query the employee information, and then populate the Dropdown with the matching result.

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