Best way to prevent widgets from being deleted?

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Good Morning Community,

We have started to work on a project with the dashboard component in perspective, and we are trying to figure out if there is an efficient way to make widgets non deletables on a dashboard after adding them.

All suggestions are welcome,

Thanks in advance.

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Is this a problem of accidental deletion in Designer or for a client user-configurable dashboard?

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client-user configurable solution. Trying to find out if there is a way for us to prevent them from removing some widgets on the dashboard as they need to be "essential widgets"

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You can turn off editing of the dashboard all together, but you can't have an editable dashboard but prevent the user from being able to edit it.

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You could have multiple dashboards on one view, configure the essential widgets on one of the dashboards in designer then set editingToggle to false.

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There's an idea.

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This could be done pretty easily with css, just add the following to either your theme.css or 'Advanced Stylesheet'.

.ia_dashboardComponent__widget__controlBar__control.widget-control.widget-control-delete {
	display: none;
}

This will still allow any editing/configuring whilst removing the delete button.

If you need it to be only certain widgets, then I would add a class to the widget in the availableWidgets, then add that class to the css selector too.

Note: you will need to prepend '.psc-' so if the class in designer was 'widget-essential'

Then the selector in your stylesheet would be

.psc-widget-essential .ia_dashboardComponent__widget__controlBar__control.widget-control.widget-control-delete
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This is an elegant solution to my problem and i plan to implement it, im not the OP i just want to thank you for this lol

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