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Empty Widgets

Empty Widgets

There are two scenarios in which you might see empty widgets.

In the first scenario, a widget (or the underlying pivot table, if applicable) has been deliberately configured not to automatically execute when you open the dashboard. (This configuration can be useful when a pivot table uses a long-running query.) In this scenario, the widget should include a refresh button , which you use to force the widget to display its contents. If there is no such button, contact the owner of the dashboard.

In the second scenario, if the system cannot find some of the data that the dashboard uses, the system displays as much of the dashboard as possible. For any affected widget, the system displays something like this:

generated description: widget missing data source

This typically indicates that someone has either renamed or deleted the data source used by this widget; it could also indicate that you do not have permission for the data in this widget. Contact the creator of the dashboard or reconfigure the widget yourself; see Creating Dashboards.

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