Erm.... read Marina's comment
That bit worked as advertised (adding a block to the *default*) but I'm struggling to modify that (if it's possible) to update *existing* dashboards. To be honest, I'm not entirely sure how that code works.
In reply to Howard Miller
Re: (Programmatically) defining Dashboard default blocks
by Marina Glancy -
Howard,
there are functions my_reset_page() and my_reset_page_for_all_users() that resets dashboards of one/all users.
Basically what it does is removing all users dashboards. Next time when user logs in after his dashboard was reset the dashboard is automatically created as a copy of the default calling function my_copy_page().
You can look at the code of these functions to get inspiration for your use case.
If you don't want to reset all users dashboards but just want to add a block to them, this is what you need to do:
1. add this block to the default dashboard
2. loop through all existing users dashboards:
SELECT id, userid FROM {my_pages} where private=1 and userid is not null
get the instance of the block from the default dashboard and copy it to all existing users' dashboards similar to what my_copy_page() is doing.
there are functions my_reset_page() and my_reset_page_for_all_users() that resets dashboards of one/all users.
Basically what it does is removing all users dashboards. Next time when user logs in after his dashboard was reset the dashboard is automatically created as a copy of the default calling function my_copy_page().
You can look at the code of these functions to get inspiration for your use case.
If you don't want to reset all users dashboards but just want to add a block to them, this is what you need to do:
1. add this block to the default dashboard
2. loop through all existing users dashboards:
SELECT id, userid FROM {my_pages} where private=1 and userid is not null
get the instance of the block from the default dashboard and copy it to all existing users' dashboards similar to what my_copy_page() is doing.