Refresh Widget

[Mani Varma]

Hi, Recently I was testing out ways to write custom dashboard widgets for projects and it is working great. A slight problem being it doesn't refresh automatically like the other inbuilt widgets. I end up having to refreshing the entire page each time an entity is selected or when switching to another project for the widget to recalculate.

Any suggestions to handle the automatic update? Options to let the widget know a different entity has been selected.

[Mani Varma]

Found it in one of the documentation and it worked. I was trying to subscribe to ftrack.widget.update before which didn't work out as expected.

https://help.ftrack.com/en/articles/1040449-custom-widgets

window.addEventListener('message', function (event) {
  var content = event.data;
  console.debug('Got ' + content.topic + ' event.', content);
  
  if (content.topic === 'ftrack.widget.load') {
    //Store credentials for later.
    window.credentials = content.data.credentials;
    
  } else if (content.topic === 'ftrack.widget.update') {
    // Load new data.
  }
}, false);

 

[Andrew Lawrence]

Hi @Mani Varma thats great news! Thanks for sharing that with the community, happy to see you found a solution to this.

If you have any further questions don't hesitate to give us a shout. 

Cheers,
Andrew