Automatic Update of Dashboards

[Andy Roden]

Is it possible to create a dashboard and then have the dashboard to automatically refresh itself?

The idea being, the Manager has the dashboard on screen and the contents update without the user having to press F5 to refresh the screen.

[admin]

Hi Andy,

It is fairly easy to do with this little trick:

On your dashboard, in the tab named rules, simply enter something like:

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</script>
<META HTTP-EQUIV=REFRESH CONTENT=60>
<script>

The Rules tab is really there to make advanced javascript field validation on forms, but actually any valid javascript/html can be placed here. The section is automatically surrounded by script tags, which is why I start with a closing tag and end with a fresh start tag.
The line

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<META HTTP-EQUIV=REFRESH CONTENT=60>

refreshes the dashboard every 60 seconds.

Bo

[Andy Roden]

Thanks for the reply Bo, that seems to have done the trick.

[Andy Roden]

While this appears to have done the trick. We are now experiencing the problem whereby once we have been on the dashboard page, if we then navigate away from it and go to another completely seperate report, after the given time interval, the dashboard is being refreshed and displayed.

Any suggestions?

[admin]

Hi Andy,

I am sorry -I can see how that would be a bit annoying... I will try to find a way around it and get back to you.

Bo

[Carsten Sørensen]

Hi Andy,

We believe we have found a solution that we'll try to implement to make this more smooth - in the meantime what you can do with the solution that Bo previously mentioned is to load the Dashboard page into a New Tab or New Window - that should avoid conflicts when opening any other items in the normal framework.

Best regards,
Carsten

[Carsten Sørensen]

Hi Andy,

We've found a solution that works well on Internet Explorer, but unfortunately not on Firefox 2 and Chrome. We have not tested other browsers..

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var  RefreshID = setInterval("window.location.reload()",10000);
function StopRefresh(){
   clearInterval(RefreshID);
}
window.attachEvent('onresize', StopRefresh);

the 10000 is miliseconds (=10 seconds)

Hope that helps you a bit

Best regards,
Carsten

[Andy Roden]

Thanks for that. We will give that a go and let you know how we get on.