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[josh]

@GavinCampbell

I noticed the icons sometimes take a few seconds to load when the page loads. Is that because its downloading them from font awesome? Any way to speed that up? With regular tiles the icons alread exist.

If you want to PM me the code, I’d be happy to take a look. Ideally, the icons and javascript should be coming from sources that get cached in your browser so they shouldn’t need to download each time. My gut would suspect other parts of the Custom Tile lifecycle – in general, they take a tick longer to render since they render in a separate context (as noted above)… when waiting for the stio.ready() callback, that adds a bit of delay too as it waits for the DOM to be completely loaded before it will get that callback.

@GavinCampbell

Is there some way to reference a variable, either a global variable or something stored on the dashboard, inside of the custom tile? Every tile has the same values for rule ID for example, but if it every changes I will have to change them all.

On a similar note is there a way to access the name of the dashboard?

There’s a feature request open for accessing variables from Custom Tiles - I’d suggest casting a vote on it.

There’s not currently a way to access the name of the dashboard since the Custom Tiles are sandboxed, but feel free to create a feature request. I suppose the ‘context’ of the tile could be passed down.

@GavinCampbell

Lastly, is there a way to set default values for a tiles settings?

There’s a few different approaches. In the sample code, I used two approaches:

1. You can initialize your local variables to whatever value you want… then if the setting isn’t reported from the stio.ready() callback, you could leave the default value to be used (eg. the isNullOrEmpty() type checks I used).
2. It’s not officially documented, but you can add a ‘default’ property into a setting in the ‘Do not edit below’ section. The parsing of that section is only triggered when the setting keys change – it was primarily intended for importing… so you have to either add or remove a dummy setting, then tab out for the new values to be parsed (and then remove/readd it).