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  • 1.  Dashboard XML Generation

    Posted 06-24-2024 10:26

    Hello all,

    Was wondering if anyone has run into this before.... I have a Dashboard that's writing to an XML file, and everything is mostly fine. I enjoy that data modification is saved back automatically vs being saved to the dashboard file itself. My only problem is that randomly the XML file will stop updating. There doesn't seem to be any time period or action that causes it to break, and I don't believe there to be a memory leak as I'm using virtually no memory in the app. When it does do this, closing Dashboard updates the file one more time, so nothing is technically "lost". A quick restart fixes it.  When this happens, the UI doesn't become sluggish or anything, everything acts normal, it just doesn't write to the file anymore. 

    So, my questions are, has anyone seen this before? If so, what typically causes it? And if it does happen, is it possible to kick it back into gear without restart? 

    I will say these dashboards started their lives in version 8.5.1 and never had this issue. When moving to 9.xx is when this started happening.

    Thanks again!

    Dave



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    David Bachman
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  • 2.  RE: Dashboard XML Generation

    Posted 06-25-2024 04:08

    What info are you writing to the XML?



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    Paul Whitfield
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  • 3.  RE: Dashboard XML Generation

    Posted 06-25-2024 09:24

    I've enjoyed using the XML instead of the internal data source because the grid is the grid, and the user input data is just that. Unless you physically change something in the dashboard there's no reason to save it. So basically, every move the user makes is stored. Someone did suggest to me to hit F5 and see if that would kick it into sending XML again, and it does. So, I'm trying to decide if this is a software bug or not.



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    David Bachman
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