Switching gauge types clears users entered values

[Steve-Mcl]

Current Behavior

OP

3. Next I added a gauge, and spent a while setting up the "segments" (these are the different colours for different thresholds of the gauge). Also I set up the range for the gauge. I enjoyed spending time choosing the segment colours and thresholds. Unfortunately when I deployed, the segment colours just didn't show at first. Then I changed another field and re-deployed, and suddenly they showed. Then the problem happened again, so I changed the gauge type, and immediately lost the threshold colours, threshold levels, and range, all of which I had carefully set and planned to duplicate later

Response

When switching gauge types, we have different defaults, it had been built to switch to the relevant defaults when changing gauge type. A better solution here would be for us to check your values vs. Our known defaults, if it doesnt match anything, keep your values...

See https://discourse.nodered.org/t/latest-dashboard-2-0-release-tabs-number-input-new-gauges/90506/28?u=steve-mcl for

Expected Behavior

If user has entered values, dont discard them

Steps To Reproduce

enter your own colour settings, switch gauge type

Environment

• Dashboard version: current
• Node-RED version:
• Node.js version:
• npm version:
• Platform/OS: all
• Browser: all

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I have provided an initial effort estimate

[gayanSandamal]

@joepavitt this seems it has been already fixed with #1264

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[joepavitt]

For dynamically injected values yes, as they're stored in the statestore, but when configuring the gauge "normally" via the config screen in Node-RED, those values are overwritten when switching gauge types.

[gayanSandamal]

For dynamically injected values yes, as they're stored in the statestore, but when configuring the gauge "normally" via the config screen in Node-RED, those values are overwritten when switching gauge types.

@joepavitt Thank you for the clarification. I will work on this