Creating my First ReportWidget

Need Help
#1

Ok im building my First widget,
i followed the documentation, and i actualy can add my widget to the Dashboard,
But when i refresh is gone.
If i add the widget again and i edit the setting like the Width i got an error screaming:
“The specified widget is not found.”

But i just added it to the Dashboard??

Has anyone had the same problem and solved it?

#2

Hi @codeskullz ,

It did happen to me but I don’t recall why and how I solved it. I have in mind the $defaultAlias variable.

You have it set?

#3

Hi @apinard, Thank you for your reply to my message

Yes, I also see in the database that this is added. I have checked the code 3 times but either I am missing something or I just don’t know.

#4

@codeskullz , remove the validation part and see if it works:

'validation' => [
                    'required' => [
                        'message' => 'The Name field is required'
                    ],
                    'regex' => [
                        'message' => 'The Name field can contain only Latin letters.',
                        'pattern' => '^[a-zA-Z]+$'
                    ]
                ]

I think it was the reason. Because it doesn’t respect the regex if you don’t enter anything

#5

Unfortunately that didn’t work. I’ll look at it again later. Thanks in advance

#6

looks strange, because i copied your code (removed some models based things to work without any data) and it shows correctly.

can you paste a _widget partial code too?

#7

i used to create a new widget.

php artisan create:reportwidget nielsvandendries.therantzone TestWidget

I didnt change any code only added it to the Plugin.php to regsiter.
I got exaclty the same issue.

    public function registerReportWidgets()
    {
        return [
            'NielsVanDenDries\Therantzone\ReportWidgets\TotalRants' => [
                'label'   => 'Total Rants',
                'context' => 'dashboard',
                'permissions' => ['nielsvandendries.therantzone.therantzone_manager']
            ],
            'NielsVanDenDries\Therantzone\ReportWidgets\TestWidget' => [
                'label'   => 'Test Widget',
                'context' => 'dashboard',
                'permissions' => ['nielsvandendries.therantzone.therantzone_manager']
            ],
        ];
    }

I can even see it is added to the database table “backend_user_preferences”.

I even pushed it to my production environment, (thats a diffrent OCT installation) but still the same.

#8

@codeskullz I think it might be the namespace.

you have in Plugin.php:

NielsVanDenDries\Therantzone\ReportWidgets\TotalRants

and you namespace that is set in your reportwidget is:

Nielsvandendries\Therantzone\ReportWidgets;

Try:

  public function registerReportWidgets()
    {
        return [
            'Nielsvandendries\Therantzone\ReportWidgets\TotalRants' => [
                'label'   => 'Total Rants',
                'context' => 'dashboard',
                'permissions' => ['nielsvandendries.therantzone.therantzone_manager']
            ],
        ];
    }

If not, adding debug points and stepping through the files should help pinpoint where the issue lies.

#9

@apinard omg that did the job, how did i not see that.
Thank you for you support @apinard and @snipi

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