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dancox's avatar
dancox
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3 months ago

UIV4 "Show widget time" option: Last Data Refresh time?

Hi, Recently we had a request from our Service Desk who asked whether we could show on the dashboard the last time dashboard widget data was refreshed.  I thought I was on to a winner when I found ...
Joe_Williams's avatar
Joe_Williams
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3 months ago

I can't edit my own post, dumb.

You can add a text widget, edit the source with something like this:

<script>
var currentdate = new Date(); 
var datetime = "Last Sync: " + currentdate.getDate() + "/"
                + (currentdate.getMonth()+1)  + "/" 
                + currentdate.getFullYear() + " @ "  
                + currentdate.getHours() + ":"  
                + currentdate.getMinutes() + ":" 
                + currentdate.getSeconds();
</script><script type="text/javascript">
     document.write(datetime)
</script>

It will show up that way. Adjust the date/time to be your proper format, I just noticed how ugly the date format is but that works.

dancox's avatar
dancox
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3 months ago

Thanks for this Joe! This would probably have worked for us, however we currently have the "Allow Scripts in Dashboard Text Widget" disabled on our portal for security reasons so unfortunately not viable for us