I’ve been uplifting dashboards and gotten a few to work.
I’ve run into a few issues but the one that has me scratching my head is when I uplifted a functioning classic dashboard.
Very simple, a grid and a few filters. It does not automatically populate the grid. Filters were made when the dashboard was set up. No customization.Input prompts only.
We have been using it for over a year
I selected Deploy Dashboard → Generate Application
It generates the application and in Application Studio I create a layer as I want to work on that.
Now if I preview either the layer or the base the tracker fields on the flyout panel are read only.
After a few seconds it loads the whole query and the tracker fields show the data from the first record. The classic dashboard does not automatically load the data. We want the users to fill in the filters and then refresh.
I’ve uplifted about 10 so far and this has not happened until now. Many other issues and items but not this particular one.
I’ve been copying the tracker fields to the main dashboard page and that works except for this one. They stay read only and only show the value of the row the user is on.
I tried with another dashboard in our live environment (2024.1.15) same issue.
When I tried the same dashboard in our pilot environment (2024.2.7) it worked.
Even stranger when I exported it from 2024.2.7 to 2024.1.15 it did not have the read only issue.
It did not populate the grid but when I went into the grid properties and chose Guided setup and selected the data view it just worked.
This was the first uplift I tried in Live. I typically do it from Pilot to Live but this was a little dashboard that I made for myself just to list equipment and is read only.
Finding a lot of bugs and cases where simple uplifts do not work.
I really hope they push the sunset and do much betting version testing.
This isn’t the worst issue I have run into with uplifting dashboards but seems like an easy one that should have been caught in routine testing.
If it seems like most of my posts are about basic functionality not working it is because I run into it a lot. I can’t imagine what people who really dive into customizing are running into.
The binding is incorrect if you left it as whatever the conversion does.
My preferred method is to bind them to TransView.YourField and update the BAQ Options to use the TransView.YourField binding.
The fields will be read only if you don’t initialize them. To do so, create an event that fires after FormLoad and use a row-update widget to set each field to "" (or its equivalent empty value).
It seems to have resolved itself mostly with the update in version but I have run into -many- other basic functionality issues. I really worry about the sunset timeframe and other ERPS are on the menu.
When you change the interface it is not supposed to be harder or worse. And at least it should work. I am finding so many bugs that fundamental items could not have been tested.
Thanks a million Hannah. Worked like a charm. I ended up ditching the dashboard tracker entirely and wiring up my own making use of TransView as you stated.
