Describe the bug
Using an Upcoming Events node with a match filter on start date. The before and after fields give the option for a String format or a message part from the previous node. The string option works fine but the message option does not - the node claims to be incorrectly configured when the flow is deployed.
To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:
- attempt to configure the node to use msg.payload.xxx or msg.xxx as passed in from the previous node
- error at deploy regarding incorrectly configured node
Expected behavior
I expected to be able to pass in before and after strings from a previous node.
This works fine:

This gives an error:

**node-red-contrib-ical-events
- Version 2.2.5
- node-red version 4.1.10
- nodejs version 24.16.0
- ical calendar
Describe the bug
Using an Upcoming Events node with a match filter on start date. The before and after fields give the option for a String format or a message part from the previous node. The string option works fine but the message option does not - the node claims to be incorrectly configured when the flow is deployed.
To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:
Expected behavior
I expected to be able to pass in before and after strings from a previous node.
This works fine:

This gives an error:

**node-red-contrib-ical-events