Dashboard gadgets fail to load in Jira server

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Symptoms

A dashboard is not able to load a gadget. 

The following appears in the atlassian-jira.log:

2013-08-21 12:42:37,398 http-bio-80-exec-12903 WARN xxxxxx 762x311586x3 66n18c 192.168.213.19 /secure/Dashboard.jspa [gadgets.renderer.internal.GadgetSpecFactoryImpl] Error occurred while retrieving gadget spec for rest/gadgets/1.0/g/com.atlassian.jira.gadgets:text-gadget/gadgets/text-gadget.xml
[gadgets.embedded.internal.GadgetUrlBuilder] GadgetUrlBuilder: could not parse spec at rest/gadgets/1.0/g/com.atlassian.jira.gadgets:text-gadget/gadgets/text-gadget.xml

Diagnosis

The exception does not indicate an application URL which means that the issue is coming from the Jira URL itself. If a URL is present, you can refer to another KB "Error occurred while retrieving gadget spec" WARN messages referring to an invalid application URL appear in the logs when accessing Jira Dashboard.


Cause

 The Atlassian Jira - Plugins - Gadgets Plugin is disabled.

Resolution

  1. Go to Jira Administration > Add-ons > Manage Add-ons > Change search option to System > Search for Atlassian Jira - Plugins - Gadgets Plugin
  2. Click on the plugin. A list of modules will show up.
  3. Enable the Text (text-gadget) module in the Gadgets Plugin - OR - related plugin which is missing

Last modified on Feb 14, 2024

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