Dashboard Widgets

[jahonix]

@sdale:

http://www.pfsense.org/~sdale/creating%20widgets.pdf to view the pdf for creating widgets.

Are you sure about the widget's path you specify in the .PDF?
I saw mine at: /usr/local/**www/**widgets/…

[yoda715]

@jahonix:

@sdale:

http://www.pfsense.org/~sdale/creating%20widgets.pdf to view the pdf for creating widgets.

Are you sure about the widget's path you specify in the .PDF?
I saw mine at: /usr/local/**www/**widgets/…

Oops. Corrected now. Thanks!

[omegadraconis]

So after a few hours of running the package I check the first page and found the below image. I'm using snapshot 1.2-BETA-1-TESTING-05-27-2007. Nothing in the system log or package log. Shows the same way in ie and in firefox. A reboot did not clear it up.

I also can't remove that package and re-installing didn't work. Just hangs and gives me:
"Removing package…
Loading package configuration dashboard.xml...
Loading package instructions..."

[yoda715]

Try using the nervecenter theme.

[omegadraconis]

@sdale:

Try using the nervecenter theme.

Did that didn't change anything. I did get it to work again after trying a few things. I did a backup and restore of my config file, then I reinstalled all packages, it still wasn't working but, then I was able to delete dashboard and re-install it. It may have been a problem with my other packages, a few seemed to be messed up.

[ben.suffolk]

@omegadraconis:

So after a few hours of running the package I check the first page and found the below image. I'm using snapshot 1.2-BETA-1-TESTING-05-27-2007. Nothing in the system log or package log. Shows the same way in ie and in firefox. A reboot did not clear it up.

I also can't remove that package and re-installing didn't work. Just hangs and gives me:
"Removing package…
Loading package configuration dashboard.xml...
Loading package instructions..."

I had this when I upgraded to the latest snapshot, well actually I had the default home page, and the package installed, so I tried to delete the package so that I could reinstall it, but got the same as you.

What I did was download the XML config, remove the package entry from it, upload it again. Then I could reinstall the package again. When I reinstalled it still did not change the home page from the default, but I delete it (which worked fine this time) then installed it again, and its all back (but still can't get logs or graphs to work).

Ben

[luma]

Hi,

pFSense rocks :)

Is there a way to install this package on embedded snapshot?

Thanks

[yoda715]

In the upcoming 1.3 Release all versions, including embedded, will have the dashboard installed by default. Once 1.2 is out the door the beta for 1.3 will follow shortly after that.

[luma]

Excellent news!

Thanks

[morbus]

I am trying to make a carp status widget starting with the code from the interfaces widget and the carp status page and using the pdf as a guide.

I made something that I think might work and tried to get it to show on the dashboard. It is in the menu for adding but nothing happens it just stays the same.

So I guessed my code had bugs (normally does) so I tried a hello world widget

| Hello world |
| Hello world |

same problem so I copied the Interfaces widget renaming it interfaces2 and this also wont show on the page.
the firefox error console says

Error: element has no properties
Source File: https://pfwall.example.com/javascript/scriptaculous/effects.js
Line: 561

Do I need to do something extra to make the widget show some config etc???

Thanks

[yoda715]

@morbus:

Do I need to do something extra to make the widget show some config etc???

Yes. Here is the code that makes the traffic graphs widget configurable:

Refresh Interval:
<select name="refreshInterval" class="formfld" id="refreshInterval" onchange="updateGraphDisplays();"><option value="1" <?php="" if="" ($refreshinterval="=" "1")="" echo="" "selected";?="">>1</option> <option value="2" <?php="" if="" ($refreshinterval="=" "2")="" echo="" "selected";?="">>2</option> <option value="3" <?php="" if="" ($refreshinterval="=" "3")="" echo="" "selected";?="">>3</option> <option value="4" <?php="" if="" ($refreshinterval="=" "4")="" echo="" "selected";?="">>4</option> <option value="5" <?php="" if="" ($refreshinterval="=" "5")="" echo="" "selected";?="">>5</option></select>   Seconds
      Note: changing this settings can affect CPU Performance on the pfSense Box

You have to have thein there with the -setting postfix. You also have to make sure the hidden shown below:

[morbus]

Sorry I may not have been clear in the last post. This widget doesn't need any config it just displays the carp status.
Actually yesterday I reinstalled the Dashboard package and the widget started displaying and working guess someone had made some changes.

I posted it here http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,5407.0.html and sullrich has committed it ;D

Does the widget need config data even if it has no config options??

Thanks for the help

[yoda715]

@morbus:

Does the widget need config data even if it has no config options??

Nope. Only if you have information you want to save and use for later.