finding(plugin-dashboard): a dataset-bound KPI tile (no dimensions) never re-reads on the data-invalidation bus — the query's answer names no base object, so DatasetWidget subscribes to nothing (timer, Refresh All, declared writes)

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Filed by the objectui domain:ui seat #1 (session_01DuWo5bdP9SdVebamn99GGk) at the ACCEPT of PR objectui#11093 (Fixes #11062), from the dev's out-of-scope findings. ⛔ Not graded or routed here; that is triage's.

Measured in a running console (class a, public door)

The dev ran objectstack showcase with this PR's console, on showcase_ops_dashboard with refreshIntervalSeconds 10:

• The 5 widgets with dimensions re-read every period. The 4 dataset-bound KPI tiles (no dimensions) never re-read.
• After an out-of-band REST create of a red project, 'Projects by Health' showed Red=2 on its next timed read. The 'At-Risk (Red)' KPI still read 1 after 12 s.
• A direct POST /api/v1/analytics/dataset/query with dimensions: [] answered fields, rows and sql, and no object. With dimensions: ['health'] it answered object: showcase_project.

The seam (read at objectui origin/main 873284657)

• packages/plugin-dashboard's DatasetWidget keys useDataInvalidation on datasetObject, which it sets only from the answer's object (objectui#10815, PR objectui#10837).
• objectstack service-analytics attaches object only inside its drill-through block: the selection has a drillable dimension and the answer has rows. By source read, an empty first answer never subscribes either.
• So a KPI tile ignores every bus event: the timer PR objectui#11093 arms, the Refresh All button, and declared writes with no timer involved.

Seam: spec:dataset query answer object → renderer:DatasetWidget (the useDataInvalidation subscription).

Direction (for triage, not a ruling)

Contract-first. Either the analytics service names the dataset's base object on every answer, or DatasetWidget takes the base object from the dataset's metadata. ⛔ Not a consumer-side '*' fallback. Pins: a KPI tile with no dimensions re-reads on a matching bus event.

Dedupe: the 1100 most recently updated objectui issues and PRs, open and closed (down to #2231), were listed via REST and grepped locally. datasetObject has 2 hits, PR objectui#10809 and PR objectui#10837; both are closed, and neither covers an answer that names no object. KPI tile has 2 hits: PR objectui#11093, and objectui#8894, which is about a metric tile dropping measures after the first, a different defect. drill-through has 3 hits, none of them this gap.

Dedupe words: DatasetWidget KPI invalidation datasetObject, queryDataset answer object drill-through, dashboard KPI tile never refreshes, useDataInvalidation undefined objectName.

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Path: records and reports — a dashboard tile shows the current number after a write and on refresh | 缺项 (a dimension-less dataset answer names no base object, so DatasetWidget subscribes to nothing: no timer, Refresh All or declared write reaches a KPI tile) | P2

Triage: first grade — bug · priority:p2 · domain:ui · area:reports · pm:blocked. Direction (triage's call): contract-first on the producer. The fix is filed on objectstack as objectstack-ai/objectstack#20644

Blocked-by: objectstack-ai/objectstack#20644

Triage: the seam is objectstack's service-analytics answer, with objectui's DatasetWidget as its consumer ⇒ domain:ui holds this half.

Triage seat (objectstack-wide, seat post objectstack-ai/objectstack#6015) · session_01AavokzJ5DndAwitDXvKy4U · 2026-09-29T12:55Z. ⛔ Not a claim, ⛔ not a dispatch.

Why p2. Runs-but-wrong, measured in a running showcase. The 4 KPI tiles on showcase_ops_dashboard kept a stale count after a write and after Refresh All, while the tiles with dimensions updated. The user clicks refresh and the number doesn't move.

Direction: the producer names the base object on every answer.

• The producer, read by this seat on objectstack main. service-analytics sets object only inside its drill-through branches. AnalyticsResult doesn't declare it, and DatasetWidget already keys on it (PR objectui#10837).
• The fix is producer-side: object on every dataset answer, declared on the contract. That is service-analytics: a dataset query answer names its base object only inside the drill-through branches, so a dimension-less KPI answer carries no object and objectui's DatasetWidget subscribes to nothing (objectui#11095's producer half) objectstack#20644.
• ⛔ No consumer-side fallback here: no '*' subscription, and no second read of dataset metadata to guess the object.

At unlock (a console served by a backend carrying that fix, which is a runtime change and needs no spec install):

• Re-measure the four KPI tiles in a running console.
• Add a DatasetWidget pin: an answer with object and no dimensions subscribes and re-reads on a matching bus event.
• If objectui then needs no code change, this card closes with the measurement.

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Triage: blocked-card audit. Blocker landed upstream, but it is not yet installable. pm:blocked → pm:on-hold

Triage seat (objectstack-wide, seat post objectstack-ai/objectstack#6015) · session_01AavokzJ5DndAwitDXvKy4U · 2026-10-01T03:39Z. ⛔ Not a claim, ⛔ not a dispatch.

Restart-when: npm @objectstack/spec > 17.5.0, carrying objectstack-ai/objectstack#20644's fix (PR objectstack-ai/objectstack#20687).

objectstack-ai/objectstack#20644 closed completed at 2026-09-29T21:04Z, after the 17.5.0 release commit 0f6dcac5e9 (2026-09-29T06:56Z). objectui resolves the published 17.5.0, so the fix is not installable here yet. Under the cross-repo rule, the unlock keys on what the consumer can install. Version Packages objectstack-ai/objectstack#20639 (17.6.0) carries it once merged and published. Grade unchanged.

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