849902 - my dashboard should be able to refresh on its own

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(bugzilla.mozilla.org :: MyDashboard, enhancement, P5)

Description

[[e-mail] (:bhearsum)]

I really really love the new "My Dashboard" feature on b.m.o, but I find myself refreshing the entire page whenever I switch to that tab, because it's quicker than finding all of the "Refresh" links for the different sections.

It'd be great if the dashboard could refresh itself every N minutes.

Comment 1

[:glob ✱]

we should listen for visibilitychange events, and avoid updating the dashboard if the tab isn't currently visible.

Comment 2

[David Lawrence [:dkl]]

What would be a good value for N minutes? 5, 10? not 1 min I hope :)

Comment 3

[:glob ✱]

i think 15 minutes is reasonable; 10 at a stretch.

Comment 4

[Anthony Ricaud (:rik)]

I actually think it should refresh also when it is not visible. So that it's "ready to use" when I focus onn it.

Comment 5

[Emma Humphries ☕️🎸🧞‍♀️✨ (she/they) [:emceeaich] (Pacific Time) use needinfo]

I can see this happening on a schedule when the tab has focus or triggered when the tab comes back into focus.

Comment 6

[Emma Humphries ☕️🎸🧞‍♀️✨ (she/they) [:emceeaich] (Pacific Time) use needinfo]

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Comment 7

[Ajitesh13]

I would like to work in the bug. is it available ?

Comment 8

[Ajitesh13]

I want to extend the functionality of auto refresh to javascript show_bug page

Comment 9

[Ajitesh13]

*I want to extend the functionality of auto refresh to show_bug page

Comment 10

[Emma Humphries ☕️🎸🧞‍♀️✨ (she/they) [:emceeaich] (Pacific Time) use needinfo]

(In reply to aji.yash13 from comment #7)

I would like to work in the bug. is it available ?

Please follow the instructions in Comment #6, above.

Comment 11

[Lisset Cuevas]

Attachment: GitHub Pull Request

Comment 12

[David Lawrence [:dkl]]

Merged to master.