Health Status Block not updating v8.0.1

[Damo 8]

Home Dashboard shows 1 pending.

But there is nothing in the queue.

I've cleared the template cache but it remains.

[brian! 3008]

9 hours ago, Damo said:

I've cleared the template cache but it remains.

I suspect the problem is that the Badges widget is caching the previous result value for 2 minutes - and there's no button on that widget to refresh the result immediately.

two quick options I can think of - either wait 2 minutes, refresh and see if the value corrects itself, or edit the widget code and disable caching. - that would mean that it would run the query on each dashboard visit, but it should be accurate (at least until you update WHMCS and it overwrites the widget code).

[aegisdesign 8]

It's always done that. It does it in v7.

Clearing the module queue doesn't invalidate the cached badge on the dashboard.

[Damo 8]

Thanks for the replies. It did clear itself but was around 20 mins. Is there a chance of other caching than directly set at 2 mins that might've contributed?

[aegisdesign 8]

20 minutes?

It's  120 seconds in modules/widgets/Badges.php. It's not changed in v8. You can edit that as it's not encrypted.

The cached data is stored in tbltransientdata with an expiry date.

I've not tested this but I would guess changing these two variables would help for you.

protected $cache = true;
protected $cacheExpiry = 120;

Maybe just setting $cache to false.

[brian! 3008]

4 hours ago, Damo said:

Is there a chance of other caching than directly set at 2 mins that might've contributed?

server? CloudFlare ??

2 hours ago, aegisdesign said:

Maybe just setting $cache to false.

that's it.

[Damo 8]

It may have been litespeed. I've disabled it for WHMCS. Oddly hasn't seen this behaviour until now. 
 

Thanks for the pointers.