I have developed a context dashboard and defined a default ‘Alarm list’ widget. Since v10.21 the configuration has changed a bit, so I was trying to update my context dashboard.
Just defining a new default widget seems not to work, as the context dashboard is always loading the previous/old default widgets. Only after reseting/restore the widgets/dashboard in the UI, the new defined widget configuration is loaded.
I also tried the ContextDashboardComponent.updateWidget() function but no results as well.
What is the best practice to reload the new widget configuration on my context dashboard?
I‘m not sure if I‘ve got your point…
So you would like to update the widget configurations of a context dashboard in some automated way?
The idea behind context dashboards is, that the user is the one defining the content and style of the dashboard. The default widgets are just meant as an initial state of the dashboard. If you are now automatically altering these dashboard, this might conflict with the changes already done by users on these dashboards.
The best practice is that a user has to press the reset dashboard button to actively revert to the default widgets once again.
In case you are not interested in the changes done by the users to these dashboards you could potentially just throw them away by giving your context dashboard a different name everytime you change the default widgets.
As another option, in case you are not interested in users making changes to these dashboards, you might want to look into the WidgetsDashboardComponent instead of the ContextDashboardComponent.
