# Dashboard Inpot control - using Button trigger

**URL:** https://forums.losant.com/t/dashboard-inpot-control-using-button-trigger/1235
**Category:** Help
**Created:** [November 9, 2018, 10:02pm UTC](https://forums.losant.com/t/dashboard-inpot-control-using-button-trigger/1235 "2018-11-09T22:02:28Z")
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### Author: ![Lars\_Andersson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f05b48/32.png) [@Lars\_Andersson](https://forums.losant.com/u/Lars_Andersson)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2018, 10:02pm UTC](https://forums.losant.com/t/dashboard-inpot-control-using-button-trigger/1235/1 "2018-11-09T22:02:28Z")

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I was able to configure an input button block in my Electric Imp dashboard, tied to a button from a workflow,but for some reason the button is greyed out and has a “no parking” symbol showing.

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### Author: ![Brandon\_Cannaday](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.losant.com/brandon_cannaday/32/14_2.png) [@Brandon\_Cannaday](https://forums.losant.com/u/Brandon_Cannaday)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2018, 10:03pm UTC](https://forums.losant.com/t/dashboard-inpot-control-using-button-trigger/1235/2 "2018-11-09T22:03:56Z")

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Can you please paste a screenshot of what you’re seeing?

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### Author: ![Lars\_Andersson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f05b48/32.png) [@Lars\_Andersson](https://forums.losant.com/u/Lars_Andersson)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2018, 10:07pm UTC](https://forums.losant.com/t/dashboard-inpot-control-using-button-trigger/1235/3 "2018-11-09T22:07:00Z")

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![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/getstructure/original/1X/829bf63ebc4770f2fb2945fdad69ddafc446c83d.png)

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### Author: ![Brandon\_Cannaday](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.losant.com/brandon_cannaday/32/14_2.png) [@Brandon\_Cannaday](https://forums.losant.com/u/Brandon_Cannaday)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2018, 10:14pm UTC](https://forums.losant.com/t/dashboard-inpot-control-using-button-trigger/1235/4 "2018-11-09T22:14:16Z")

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By default, input controls are “locked”. You can unlock them using the menu on the top-right of the block. You can also change the default locked state at the bottom of the block’s configuration page. The lock state has two purposes:

1. When a control is marked as “Dynamic” its value is tied to a device attribute. When they’re locked, they are updating their value from the device. When unlocked, they are no longer being updated and you can change them manually.
2. Locking provides a measure to prevent accidental button clicks. The user has to explicitly unlock the block in order to invoke the button.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/getstructure/original/1X/e4489040e8c9c7953657364f657d2b004abe88dc.png)

Our documentation on locked vs. unlocked can be found here:

> **[Input Controls](https://docs.losant.com/dashboards/input-controls/#locked-vs-unlocked)**
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> Send commands to your devices and fire workflows directly from a configurable Losant dashboard block. Read more.