Distribution View Will Not Populate List View When Connected in a Dashboard

Products

• VCF Operations/Automation (formerly VMware Aria Suite)

Issue/Introduction

The issue where a Distribution View fails to populate a connected List View when a segment is selected in a dashboard is due to a hardcoded architectural limitation within VMware Aria Operations/VCF Operations.

 

Environment

VCF Operations/VMware Aria Operations

Cause

The dashboard widget interaction logic is not designed to pass "buckets" or arrays of resources from a Distribution View (e.g., a pie chart segment representing multiple ESXi hosts) to a List View. The List View widget wrapper is hardcoded to receive and load data for only a single resource ID. Because a segment selection typically represents multiple resources, the receiving List View cannot iterate through the array, resulting in a null or empty display

 

Resolution

This is expected behavior.

WORKAROUND: 

1. Use List View with Grouping: Rebuild the target View as a List View and enable the "Group By" feature (e.g., Group By Summary|Version). This allows the resources (such as ESXi hosts) to be grouped by their version or other properties within the same widget. This bypasses the inter-widget interaction limit by keeping the grouping and the list within a single object-handling context