ui-form: Adding a dropdown with options dynamically doesn't work

[its-Zeke]

Current Behavior

I'm adding some text input fields, date picker and a dropdown to a ui-form by passing the stuff to 'msg.ui_update.options'.
After that i'm trying to add entries to the dropdown by setting this: 'msg.ui_update.dropdownOptions'.

My options are never appearing in the dashboard.

Also the documentation at https://dashboard.flowfuse.com/nodes/widgets/ui-form.html is a little confusing. On the upper part it says in the structure to set: Array<{ dropdown: , key: , label: }> but then in the example we have: [{
"dropdown": "Dropdown Name",
"value": "1",
"label": "Option 1"
}]

Expected Behavior

I expected to add 4 fields to the ui-form node, 1 of them is a dropdown. I also expected, to set the dropdown entries by passing them to dropdownOptions.

Steps To Reproduce

Here's the mini flow:

[
    {
        "id": "66bf77559901ee4d",
        "type": "ui-form",
        "z": "aa8e63720407f4a8",
        "name": "",
        "group": "c0d504cf5fe801b7",
        "label": "Neuer Eintritt",
        "order": 1,
        "width": 0,
        "height": 0,
        "options": [
            {
                "label": "Name",
                "key": "name",
                "type": "text",
                "required": true,
                "rows": null
            }
        ],
        "formValue": {
            "name": ""
        },
        "payload": "",
        "submit": "submit",
        "cancel": "clear",
        "resetOnSubmit": true,
        "topic": "topic",
        "topicType": "msg",
        "splitLayout": "",
        "className": "",
        "passthru": false,
        "x": 810,
        "y": 500,
        "wires": [
            [
                "879efe0af9720da1"
            ]
        ]
    },
    {
        "id": "1635bc4840179702",
        "type": "inject",
        "z": "aa8e63720407f4a8",
        "name": "",
        "props": [
            {
                "p": "ui_update",
                "v": "{}",
                "vt": "json"
            },
            {
                "p": "topic",
                "vt": "str"
            }
        ],
        "repeat": "",
        "crontab": "",
        "once": true,
        "onceDelay": 0.1,
        "topic": "",
        "x": 430,
        "y": 500,
        "wires": [
            [
                "d8aacea1bc33d051"
            ]
        ]
    },
    {
        "id": "d8aacea1bc33d051",
        "type": "function",
        "z": "aa8e63720407f4a8",
        "name": "function 20",
        "func": "msg.ui_update.options = [\n    {\n        \"type\": \"text\",\n        \"label\": \"Name\",\n        \"key\": \"name\",\n        \"required\": true\n    },\n    {\n        \"type\": \"text\",\n        \"label\": \"Vorname\",\n        \"key\": \"firstName\",\n        \"required\": true\n    },\n    {\n        \"type\": \"date\",\n        \"label\": \"Geburtstag\",\n        \"key\": \"dob\",\n        \"required\": true\n    },\n    {\n        \"type\": \"dropdown\",\n        \"label\": \"Mannschaft\",\n        \"key\": \"teamSelect\",\n        \"required\": true\n    }\n]\n\nmsg.ui_update.dropdownOptions =\n    [{\n        \"dropdown\": \"teamSelect\",\n        \"value\": \"1\",\n        \"label\": \"Option 1\"\n    }]\n\nreturn msg;",
        "outputs": 1,
        "timeout": 0,
        "noerr": 0,
        "initialize": "",
        "finalize": "",
        "libs": [],
        "x": 610,
        "y": 500,
        "wires": [
            [
                "66bf77559901ee4d",
                "58dc41bec0ad2a4a"
            ]
        ]
    },
    {
        "id": "879efe0af9720da1",
        "type": "debug",
        "z": "aa8e63720407f4a8",
        "name": "debug 26",
        "active": true,
        "tosidebar": true,
        "console": false,
        "tostatus": false,
        "complete": "true",
        "targetType": "full",
        "statusVal": "",
        "statusType": "auto",
        "x": 1020,
        "y": 500,
        "wires": []
    },
    {
        "id": "c0d504cf5fe801b7",
        "type": "ui-group",
        "name": "Eintritt",
        "page": "588400228cd2e224",
        "width": "6",
        "height": "1",
        "order": 1,
        "showTitle": true,
        "className": "",
        "visible": "true",
        "disabled": "false"
    },
    {
        "id": "588400228cd2e224",
        "type": "ui-page",
        "name": "Prozess",
        "ui": "81e89166e9abaa16",
        "path": "/page2",
        "icon": "home",
        "layout": "grid",
        "theme": "cf440ef319098fbf",
        "order": 1,
        "className": "",
        "visible": "true",
        "disabled": "false"
    },
    {
        "id": "81e89166e9abaa16",
        "type": "ui-base",
        "name": "My Dashboard",
        "path": "/dashboard",
        "includeClientData": true,
        "acceptsClientConfig": [
            "ui-notification",
            "ui-control"
        ],
        "showPathInSidebar": false,
        "showPageTitle": true,
        "navigationStyle": "default",
        "titleBarStyle": "default"
    },
    {
        "id": "cf440ef319098fbf",
        "type": "ui-theme",
        "name": "Default Theme",
        "colors": {
            "surface": "#ffffff",
            "primary": "#0094CE",
            "bgPage": "#eeeeee",
            "groupBg": "#ffffff",
            "groupOutline": "#cccccc"
        },
        "sizes": {
            "density": "default",
            "pagePadding": "12px",
            "groupGap": "12px",
            "groupBorderRadius": "4px",
            "widgetGap": "12px"
        }
    }
]

Environment

• Dashboard version: 1.15.0
• Node-RED version: 4.0.0
• Node.js version: 20.15.0
• npm version: 10.7.0
• Platform/OS: windows
• Browser: chrome

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[joepavitt]

Ah, you've jumped the gun a little! That got merged into our main branch on Friday, but isn't actually released yet.

@gayanSandamal @Steve-Mcl could you push out a 1.15.1 please

[gayanSandamal]

Ah, you've jumped the gun a little! That got merged into our main branch on Friday, but isn't actually released yet.

@gayanSandamal @Steve-Mcl could you push out a 1.15.1 please

We will handle this

[Steve-Mcl]

Ah, you've jumped the gun a little! That got merged into our main branch on Friday, but isn't actually released yet.

@gayanSandamal @Steve-Mcl could you push out a 1.15.1 please

@joepavitt apologies, I am just seeing this now.

I put a comment on the issue: #1257 (comment)

Essentially, I am thinking the should not really be a .1 patch release? (as I can see a whole bunch of features in the commit log since v1.15.0)

[Steve-Mcl]

v1.16.0 is now released.

closing issue.

If problems persist, re-open or start new issue.

Thanks.