Does anyone know where I can download a list of all available npm dashboard widgets? I found one for service, but not for NPM and cannot download or export them from the GUI in any way. Thank you in advance

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Does anyone know where I can download a list of all available npm dashboard widgets?  I found a list online for the service desk, but not for NPM and cannot download or export them from the GUI in any way. Would like to have a list of all available options.

Thank you in advance

mesverrum · Accepted Answer

It used to be easy, but they made it much harder a few years ago.

There was a directory on any Orion web server that stored the actual code of all the widgets, so you could just dump a list of all the file names in there and you would have been set.

Then in an effort to make all the pages load faster they introduced the option to pre-compile the website, which hid away a lot of the details like those files, so now i can't think of an easy way to get a list of all the widgets unless you turn off the pre compiled website and run a configuration wizard, which is kind of a hassle to do.

The other approach might be to just create a summary dashboard of your own and just manually add all the widgets to it, then dump the database table for that viewid to a csv.

Query would be something like

Select * from Resources where viewid=yourViewID#

I'll also throw in the caution, don't try to actually load that page with every widget on it because im sure it will cause your server to lock up trying to display all that data at once.

mesverrum · Accepted Answer

Well as a counter point in modern dashboards they went away from the concept of pre designed widgets completely. There is basically just the prompt to pick one of the pre defined visualization formats and then either reference a pre-existing example of that from one of the existing dashboards or roll your own right there in the query builder.

3/4 of the old pre defined widgets in the legacy dashboards are pretty inferior anyway so it makes sense to me to leave them in the past.  For years I have just been using the custom query widget and making my own for almost everything I display.