# Ideas for improving Primary interface and Dashboard Server

**URL:** <https://forum.universal-robots.com/t/ideas-for-improving-primary-interface-and-dashboard-server/18127>\
**Category:** Robot Communication\
**Created:** [December 11, 2021, 12:46pm UTC](https://forum.universal-robots.com/t/ideas-for-improving-primary-interface-and-dashboard-server/18127 "2021-12-11T12:46:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![androidflorent](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.universal-robots.com/androidflorent/32/3314_2.png) [@androidflorent](https://forum.universal-robots.com/u/androidflorent)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2021, 12:46pm UTC](https://forum.universal-robots.com/t/ideas-for-improving-primary-interface-and-dashboard-server/18127/1 "2021-12-11T12:46:19Z")

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This message is for the **UR development team**.

Several customers or collaborators are telling me about the following few features that would be very useful:

- It is currently not possible to **resume a program** with Dashboard Server. You can stop or pause, but the “play” command resumes the program from the beginning. Could you add a “resume” command?

- In Primary/Secondary Interfaces, the **GlobalVariablesSetupMessage and GlobalVariablesUpdateMessage** seem to be sent when there is a value change and when a program starts. If you connect while a program is running, you are not informed about the list of currently declared variables. Could you also send this information **when a TCP client connects**?

- There is no way to **write a variable remotely** (even by sending script with Primary Interface : it stops the program running. Also a secondary program cannot write a variable…). Is it possible to have a way to remotely write a variable, like a Dashboard server command?

Thank you for your understanding 🙂

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**Author:** ![anon1548950](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc79bd/32.png) [@anon1548950](https://forum.universal-robots.com/u/anon1548950)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2021, 7:52am UTC](https://forum.universal-robots.com/t/ideas-for-improving-primary-interface-and-dashboard-server/18127/2 "2021-12-20T07:52:22Z")

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These features would be very useful. It would make life much easier if there would be a simple way to write variables remotely and have an option to simply resume the program instead of running it from the beginning.