Dashboard broken after adding widget

[ed-ud]

Deployment Type

Self-hosted

NetBox Version

v4.2.3

Python Version

3.12

Steps to Reproduce

1. Go to main dashboard page and click Unlock.
2. Click Add Widget.
3. Select object type Notifications.
4. Click Save.

Dashboard gets the error from the screenshot below.

Expected Behavior

We shouldn't be able to select models that don't work, or cause the dashboard to break.

Observed Behavior

[arthanson]

@ed-ud Can you please re-check and update the reproduction steps. There is no "object type" Notifications by default, there is a Widget type. I tried Widget Type: object Counts and Models: Extras > Notifications, but that worked fine on mine.

[ed-ud]

Sorry... select Object List and then select Model: Extras > Notification

[arthanson]

This is hard to get to do, and there is the workaround, but once you do this the dashboard is hosed and people will need to lookup how to clear the dashboard out, should be an easy fix so marking as medium priority.

[ed-ud]

Someone can try to put their Notifications on the dashboard - seems like a reasonable thing to do.
It's not really "hard to get to do"... you just add a normal widget the normal way, nothing odd about it.