challenging to fix a broken dashboard with a missing board

[Bill Sheboy]

Greetings!

When a board is deleted, and there are multiple dashboard gadgets accessing it, it is nearly impossible to correct the problem (to select a new board) because the error messages for the gadgets repeatedly draw on the screen…preventing access to edit the settings. The error dialogues can be dismissed, but they quickly repaint on the screen for each gadget that cannot find the board.

I had to repeatedly and quickly dismiss the errors in order to access the settings to edit them, before the error dialogue once again blocked my access.

Two work-arounds are:

• Switch to 3-column view, and the left and middle columns can be easily edited. The right one is challenging to access unless the “add a gadget” panel is left open to provide a buffer between the error and the gadget configuration view.
• Delete the dashboard and re-create it.

Suggested fix: once the error dialogue displays for a gadget, do not check for errors/redraw it until the gadget is refreshed on the page for drawing.

[Danut M [StonikByte]]

Hi Bill,

Agree with your suggestion of removing the error dialog-boxes.

We intend to improve this in the near future.

Danut.

[Bill Sheboy]

Hi, and thanks for the follow-up, Danut!

Kind regards,
Bill

[Danut M [StonikByte]]

Hi Bill,

This has been fixed by displaying error messages in the gadget iframe instead of a dialog box.

Thank you,

Danut Manda

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