cloning dashboards (solved) & manipulate order of dashboards in the headline (unsolved)

Submitted by brutzler on Sat, 17/01/2015 - 15:21

Hi,

just right now, I wanted to make a new dashboard, similiar to an existing one.

Therefore I used the "clone"-symbol in the dasboard-list.
I got a new one, identical to the origin one. Good so far.

BUT: When I change something on the clone, it is changed on the origin too. Thats not my aim, I wanted to change only the copy.

Is there a possibility, to make a copy of a dashboard, not a clone?

Re: cloning dashboards (solved) & manipulate order of dashboards in the headline (unsolved)

Submitted by brutzler on Sat, 17/01/2015 - 19:16.

Edit:

I tried this with 8.3.5 (same database): There it is working as expected:
- I cloned a page, and made changes in the new one.
--> The old one stays as before.

But a new feature: (in 8.3.5)
There must be an issue with the alias.

My origin dashboard is called "Test" (alias: test)
The new one got the name "Test_clone", alias null

Now changing the alias from null to test_2......
--> When i want to call the test_clone page using the shortcut on the top of the page, there is opening the dashboard-list-page. No chance to open the clone page....

Edit 2.

Yes, I have seen, that the name of the alias is to be set very carefully.

I tried these alias-pairs for my two pages:
- test <-> test ---> calling always the same page
- test <-> test_2 --> look above
- test <-> xtest --> all fine :-)

Edit 3:

I saw the same in v8.4.0
--> choose carefully the alias-name will save problems.

Re: cloning dashboards (solved) & manipulate order of dashboards in the headline (unsolved)

Submitted by brutzler on Sat, 17/01/2015 - 19:23.

I extended the thread, because after cloning the new dashboard is shown somewhere in the middle of the headline. But I want it at the end of the headline (the last one)

I have seen, that it is not sorted by id.

How can i manipulate this order.

Re: cloning dashboards (solved) & manipulate order of dashboards in the headline (unsolved)

Submitted by pb66 on Sat, 17/01/2015 - 22:30.

I don't think there is a "provided manipulation method" but you may be able to get them to the order you want by studying how the list of dashboards is complied. because of the public,private,published flags I think the "openly" accesible dashboards may populate the list first so when you log in the others are added rather than the whole list and position changing whether you are logged in or not.

It looks like the list is just rendered in what ever order they are in. the menubar is just a title on the left and "a list"

There appears to be no index, level or order in the SQL.

Paul

Re: cloning dashboards (solved) & manipulate order of dashboards in the headline (unsolved)

Submitted by brutzler on Sat, 17/01/2015 - 23:03.

Hi Paul,

thx for your work, figuring out the infos.

Yes you are right:
There appears to be no index, level or order in the SQL.

Looking at the ID, there is no order in the list, because in my case the list is in that order: ID= 2-3-4-12-6

I tried a different way:

I entered phpmyadmin, and changed the content,name,alias etc. of the dashboards from one dashboard to the other, until i got a satisfying result.

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