[BUG] StartingView = Minimal view not working

[ToniMurcia]

Environment

Self-Hosted (Docker)

System

Docker 20.10.8

Version

2.1.1

Describe the problem

Settings like appConfig.startingView not working when you set them up on conf.yml. For example it is not posible to show the minimal view by default. If you execute yarn build, this settings start to work but then it is not possible to modify the conf.yml externally because the conf.yml that works is the one located in /app/dist/

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[kkoyung]

I have the same issue. My temporary workaround is to remove /app/dist/conf.yml after executing yarn build within the container, then it will fallback to use your config file mounted at /app/public/conf.yml.

Detail procedure:

1. Start the container with the value minimal for appConfig.startingView in your config file.

docker run -d \
  -p 4000:80 \
  -v /root/my-local-conf.yml:/app/public/conf.yml \
  --name my-dashboard \
  --restart=always \
  lissy93/dashy:latest

2. Re-build the app within the container, by docker exec -it my-dashboard yarn build
3. Remove the generated config file, by docker exec -it my-dashboard rm ./dist/conf.yml

Remark: You have to repeat step 2-3 whenever you make changes to the value of appConfig.startingView.

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[CrazyWolf13]

Hi
This problems seems to be related to dashy not automatically rebuilding on changes, see #1479 and #1290 (comment)
A new release has just been published, which should fix this issue, so please upgrade to the latest version.
If this is not the case just respond back to this ticket and I'll reopen this issue.
Thanks and have a nice day.

[melhakim]

Changing startingView has no effect whatsoever. I rebooted the instance, saved local, saved to disk. Looked through the filesystem. I am running it via lxc from tteck

[CrazyWolf13]

Please try a manual rebuild.

[melhakim]

@CrazyWolf13 do you mean from the UI? Or from the cli? I did trigger the rebuild from the UI. I still have to see how to do it from the cli.

[CrazyWolf13]

Yes I mean trigger from the UI, then refresh the page.

[melhakim]

Done that. No change. Tried looking for the conf.yml file in the dist dir as suggested earlier in this post and couldn't find it.

[CrazyWolf13]

Then it's probably a issue with dashy, I'll reopen this, but honestly wouldn't be surprised if this does not get fixed in the near future, looking at the activity and the project behind the curtains.

[melhakim]

Thanks. I'll keep looking into it. But with my limited experience with the project as well as js, I doubt I'll get to anything faster than the collaborators.