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MarkShnier__You's avatar
MarkShnier__You
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3 years ago

Auto Refresh a New dashboard

There is an elegant way to Refresh a Home Page (ie old style dashboard). Just a code page like this <script> setTimeout(function(){ parent.location.reload(1); }, 60000); </script> Then just...
IvanWeiss's avatar
IvanWeiss
Qrew Captain
3 years ago
I have not.  I used to use that too but obviously doesnt work now.  I had reached out to support months ago and they said nothing.  Ill follow this post in case someone says something.  In today's world those dashboards should be joined to auto refresh without us needing to do anything honestly.  Web pages cant be stagnant like that anymore.

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Ivan Weiss
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  • MarkShnier__You's avatar
    MarkShnier__You
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    3 years ago
    I found an answer to my own question. I use the share link for the New Dashboard to embed a webpage on my old homepage (suffixed with &ifv=1).

    And then I know how to refresh a home page so I got it to work.

    The use case is where you're trying to put a giant TV screen up in an office and have various key measure widgets be updated every few minutes.

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    • ChrisNewsome's avatar
      ChrisNewsome
      Qrew Captain
      3 years ago

      Mark can you elaborate on this solution? I have this exact use case, a large TV that I need to update regularly. 

      I'd also like to be able to update just a basic report page in the same manner. (Such as a homepage report for a table)



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      Thanks,
      Chris Newsome
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      • MarkShnier__You's avatar
        MarkShnier__You
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        3 years ago
        Sure, this will only work on a Home Page, but not a new dashboard, but you can cheat and embed a new Dashboard in a Home Page.

        Make a Page called Refresh.html
        with code below.  This will refresh every 300,000 milliseconds which is 300 seconds whch is 5 minutes.  

        <script>
        setTimeout(function(){
        parent.location.reload(1);
        }, 300000);
        </script>


        The include a web page widget on your home page with this URL

        mycompany.quickbase.com/db/xxxxxxxx?a=showpage&pageID=24

        Replace xxxxxxx with the app ID
        Replace 24 with the Page # of that Refresh script page.

        Note that while you are in Customize Page mode on the homepage it will suddenly refresh every five minutes so you might want to set a longer delay while you are working with the homepage configuration as it gets confusing if all of a sudden the page just refreshes on you!  

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