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calvincoffeen
New Contributor II
3 years ago

Button Highlighting Business Rule - "Load Dashboard Server Task (Once)" running twice?

Hello, I have a problem with a couple business rules running at the wrong times from within a dashboard.  The background: I have a business rule that changes the formatting of the buttons on a da...
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  • Cosimo's avatar
    Cosimo
    3 years ago

    Calvin,

    Just a side comment: I wouldn't use a literal parameter to store the value of what button was pressed. The literal parameter is shared with all your users  and you will run into a problem where one user session overwrites the parameter value while another user session will eventually read the updated value but it doesn't reflect what the user should be seeing.

    A workaround would be to setup a runtime parameter that you then save to the dashboard parameter dictionary (i.e. args.LoadDashboardTaskInfo.CustomSubstVarsFromPriorRun in LoadDashboard section and args.SelectionChangedTaskInfo.CustomSubstVars in ComponentSelectionChanged section).

     

    Also that db_pdx said: have you tried "Tabs"

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db_pdx
Valued Contributor
3 years ago

Hi calvincoffen: is the button set to redraw/refresh the dashboard component (frame) that holds the buttons?  Hopefully its as simple as that.

Cheers,     -DB

Edit: have you tried the standard 'Tabs' Layout Type?

  • calvincoffeen's avatar
    calvincoffeen
    New Contributor II
    3 years ago

    The button is set to refresh, don't think that's the problem. I tested further by turning off the .LoadDashboard part of the BR, and the buttons work correctly (except for when the DB is first launched of course). This makes it seem to me that the .LoadDashboard is actually running a second time when a button is first pressed, as if the dashboard is relaunched after the first button press.

    But I have never used tabs and that was an amazingly helpful recommendation, thank you!