How to: Save a Dashboard State to Cookies and Restore this State on the Server Side (Web Forms)

Jun 15, 2018
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The sample illustrates how to save the current ASPxDashboard state (such as master filter or parameter values) to cookies on the client side and restore this state on the server side. The following API is used in this example:

The ASPxClientDashboard.DashboardStateChanged event is handled to obtain the current dashboard state.
The ASPxClientUtils.SetCookie client-side method is used to save the dashboard state to cookies.
In the ASPxDashboard.SetInitialDashboardState event handler, the dashboard state is loaded from the cookies and applied to a dashboard.

Note

A complete sample project is available at https://github.com/DevExpress-Examples/aspxdashboard-how-to-save-a-dashboard-state-to-cookies-t513329.

<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="Default.aspx.cs" 
    Inherits="WebDashboard_DashboardStateCookies.Default" %>

<%@ Register Assembly="DevExpress.Dashboard.v17.1.Web, Version=17.1.3.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b88d1754d700e49a" 
    Namespace="DevExpress.DashboardWeb" TagPrefix="dx" %>

<!DOCTYPE html>

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head runat="server">
    <title></title>
</head>
<body>
    <form id="form1" runat="server">
    <div style="position:absolute; left:0; right:0; top:0; bottom:0;">
        <dx:ASPxDashboard ID="ASPxDashboard1" runat="server" 
            WorkingMode="ViewerOnly" 
            ClientInstanceName="webDashboard"
            IncludeDashboardIdToUrl="True"        
            DashboardStorageFolder="~/App_Data/Dashboards" 
            Height="100%" Width="100%" OnSetInitialDashboardState="ASPxDashboard1_SetInitialDashboardState">
            <ClientSideEvents DashboardStateChanged="
                function(s, e) {
                var cookies = e.DashboardState;
                ASPxClientUtils.SetCookie('ASPxDashboardState', cookies);
            }"></ClientSideEvents>
        </dx:ASPxDashboard>
    </div>
    </form>
</body>
</html>

using DevExpress.DashboardCommon;
using DevExpress.DashboardWeb;
using System;
using System.Web;

namespace WebDashboard_DashboardStateCookies
{
    public partial class Default : System.Web.UI.Page
    {
        protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {            
        }

        protected void ASPxDashboard1_SetInitialDashboardState(object sender, SetInitialDashboardStateEventArgs e)
        {
            HttpCookie cookie = Request.Cookies["ASPxDashboardState"];
            if (cookie != null)
            {
                DashboardState dashboardState = new DashboardState();
                dashboardState.LoadFromJson(HttpUtility.UrlDecode(cookie.Value));
                if (e.DashboardId == "dashboard1")
                    e.InitialState = dashboardState;
            }
        }
    }
}

Imports DevExpress.DashboardCommon
Imports DevExpress.DashboardWeb
Imports System
Imports System.Web

Namespace WebDashboard_DashboardStateCookies
    Partial Public Class [Default]
        Inherits System.Web.UI.Page

        Protected Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs)
        End Sub

        Protected Sub ASPxDashboard1_SetInitialDashboardState(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As SetInitialDashboardStateEventArgs)
            Dim cookie As HttpCookie = Request.Cookies("ASPxDashboardState")
            If cookie IsNot Nothing Then
                Dim dashboardState As New DashboardState()
                dashboardState.LoadFromJson(HttpUtility.UrlDecode(cookie.Value))
                If e.DashboardId = "dashboard1" Then
                    e.InitialState = dashboardState
                End If
            End If
        End Sub
    End Class
End Namespace

<%@ Page Language="vb" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="Default.aspx.vb" 
    Inherits="WebDashboard_DashboardStateCookies.Default" %>

<%@ Register Assembly="DevExpress.Dashboard.v17.1.Web, Version=17.1.3.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b88d1754d700e49a" 
    Namespace="DevExpress.DashboardWeb" TagPrefix="dx" %>

<!DOCTYPE html>

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head runat="server">
    <title></title>
</head>
<body>
    <form id="form1" runat="server">
    <div style="position:absolute; left:0; right:0; top:0; bottom:0;">
        <dx:ASPxDashboard ID="ASPxDashboard1" runat="server" 
            WorkingMode="ViewerOnly" 
            ClientInstanceName="webDashboard"
            IncludeDashboardIdToUrl="True"        
            DashboardStorageFolder="~/App_Data/Dashboards" 
            Height="100%" Width="100%" OnSetInitialDashboardState="ASPxDashboard1_SetInitialDashboardState">
            <ClientSideEvents DashboardStateChanged="
                function(s, e) {
                var cookies = e.DashboardState;
                ASPxClientUtils.SetCookie('ASPxDashboardState', cookies);
            }"></ClientSideEvents>
        </dx:ASPxDashboard>
    </div>
    </form>
</body>
</html>

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