Unable to delete keys out of Layout YAML

[lukecyca]

Grafana: 11.3.0
Plugin: 1.8.1

It seems that whenever I make changes to the Layout YAML textarea on the sidebar, removing anything fails to take effect, and gets re-added as soon as I save/refresh.

My workaround is to never delete keys, but instead change them back to their default value.

[jacksongoode]

Hmmm, I'm not exactly sure what you mean here or I can't reproduce it. The YAML text area has changes immediately reflected when I make changes to it.

Could you post some minimal example?

[lukecyca]

Thanks for your reply! Sure, here are some screencasts:

In the first screencast:

1. Create a new panel on a new dashboard
2. Enter some hard-coded test data (although I experience this with dynamic data too)
3. Notice that the x axis is type: date
4. Attempt to delete it
5. Notice that it has not taken effect
6. Add a type: linear back
7. Notice that it takes effect immediately

grafana-plotly-issue-1.mov

In the next screencase:

1. Remove the type: date line
2. Attempt to save this change in the dashboard. Grafana won't let me because it doesn't think any state has changed on this dashboard.
3. Make an unrelated change to the panel description
4. Save the dashboard
5. Reload my browser
6. Notice that type: date has reappeared!

grafana-plotly-issue-2.mov

[jacksongoode]

Ah I see what you mean. There are a few defaults that are set in the layout config that will default to if they aren't explicitly set. Those are what you see in the default layout editor in a new panel.

The other thing I notice is that you need to click away from the edits you've made in a textarea to actually commit them to the changes of the panel.

[jacksongoode]

Oddly, I don't see the behavior of not seeing changes to the x axis using a random walk dataset when you change the date type.

Screen.Recording.2024-11-07.at.17.15.21.mov

[jacksongoode]

However I am on 11.1 - let me just see if its an issue in 11.3.