How to refresh dashboard gramplets?

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#1

Is there a way to refresh the content in a dashboard gramplet (only on demand, not continuously!), other than by removing and re-adding the gramplet, or restarting Gramps?

It’s not necessary for most dashboard gramplets, but would be useful for some:

  • This Day In Family History (Also, it would be nice if I could enter just any given month and day, without a year, in the sidebar filter of the Events category view.)

  • Latest Changes (I realize I can also go into Edit - Undo History but that doesn’t contain links to the changed people.)

  • Others that are less important to me (Statistics, Records, the various name Clouds)

"Filters" in category bar
#2

@SNoiraud has created 2 variations of a Freeze for Gramplet refresh. They need use testing and feedback. These give manual refreshing options.

0010850: Freeze contextual updating to Gramplet content?

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  • I think we may have another solution available by gramplet.
    For each tab in the notebook, we already have an optional close button. We could add a new button called for example freeze/unfreeze to avoid the automatic refresh.

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#3

It sounds like those changes would affect gramplets that are already refreshing; but would they affect the dashboard gramplets that currently don’t refresh?

#4

An excellent question.

You’ll have to try them and let us know.

#5

You could disable the gramplet catching database update signals like here, add a refresh button and use the button click callback to update the gramplet.

#6

Are you saying that the dashboard gramplets should already be refreshing automatically? My problem is the opposite; they are not refreshing, and I would like them to (preferably on demand, but automatically would be ok if it is not too inefficient).