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+---
+---
+
+No package released: tests and one doc comment, no behaviour change. `@object-ui/plugin-dashboard` gains a pin that a dataset-bound KPI tile (a `metric` widget with no dimensions) re-reads on the data-invalidation bus once its query's answer names the dataset's base object. The answer names it on every dataset query since objectstack-ai/objectstack#20644, which `@objectstack/spec` 17.6.0 declares as `AnalyticsResult.object`. The widget already subscribed on that key, so no executable code changed (objectui#11095).
+
+`@object-ui/app-shell`'s `refreshDashboardData` doc comment stops describing that gap as current. The comment is not inert text: `tsc` keeps it in the emitted `dist/views/DashboardView.js`, which is published. It sits above a non-exported function, so it is in no `.d.ts`. It changes no export, type or behaviour, so it releases nothing and ships with the next release of the group.
diff --git a/packages/app-shell/src/views/DashboardView.tsx b/packages/app-shell/src/views/DashboardView.tsx
index b1f3c8cb46..e9a946d939 100644
--- a/packages/app-shell/src/views/DashboardView.tsx
+++ b/packages/app-shell/src/views/DashboardView.tsx
@@ -50,12 +50,14 @@ import { useObjectTranslation } from '@object-ui/i18n';
  * `DashboardView.autoRefresh-11062.test.tsx` counts the re-reads and checks the
  * widget's node survives them.
  *
- * ⚠️ A `DatasetWidget` matches nothing until its answer names the dataset's
- * base object, and the server names it only beside drill-through metadata. A
- * dataset-bound KPI tile (no dimensions) therefore never re-reads on the bus,
- * from this handler or from a declared write. That gap is the widget's
- * subscription key, not this handler; it was measured in a running console on
- * objectui#11062.
+ * A `DatasetWidget` subscribes on the base object its query's answer names.
+ * Every dataset answer names it (`AnalyticsResult.object`,
+ * objectstack-ai/objectstack#20644), with or without dimensions and rows, so a
+ * dataset-bound KPI tile (no dimensions) re-reads on this handler and on a
+ * declared write to that object. `DatasetWidget.kpiInvalidation-11095.test.tsx`
+ * in `plugin-dashboard` pins the widget's half (objectui#11095); the
+ * producer's half is pinned upstream by `service-analytics`'s
+ * `dataset-answer-object.test.ts`.
  *
  * The scope is the bus's unknown-scope value, `'*'`, the same one `PageView`
  * uses after a page action. A timed re-read does not know what changed, and
diff --git a/packages/plugin-dashboard/src/DatasetWidget.kpiInvalidation-11095.test.tsx b/packages/plugin-dashboard/src/DatasetWidget.kpiInvalidation-11095.test.tsx
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+/**
+ * ObjectUI
+ * Copyright (c) 2024-present ObjectStack Inc.
+ *
+ * This source code is licensed under the MIT license found in the
+ * LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
+ */
+
+/**
+ * objectui#11095 — a dataset-bound KPI tile (a `metric` widget with no
+ * dimensions) re-reads on the data-invalidation bus.
+ *
+ * `DatasetWidget` subscribes `useDataInvalidation` on the base object its
+ * query's ANSWER names (`object`, objectui#10815). The analytics service used
+ * to name it only beside drill-through metadata, which needs a drillable
+ * dimension and at least one row, so a dimension-less tile's answer named
+ * nothing and the tile ignored every bus event: the dashboard timer, Refresh
+ * All, and declared writes. The fix is the producer's
+ * (objectstack-ai/objectstack#20644): `AnalyticsResult.object` is declared in
+ * `@objectstack/spec` 17.6.0 and named on every dataset answer, with or
+ * without dimensions and with or without rows. The producer half is pinned
+ * upstream, by `service-analytics`'s `dataset-answer-object.test.ts`, not here.
+ * Nothing changed in this package, so these cases pin the consumer half.
+ *
+ * The answers below have the shape the producer returns for a
+ * `dimensions: []` selection: `rows`, `fields` and `object`, with no
+ * `dimensionFields` and no `drillRawRows`. The last case keeps the triage
+ * ruling on the card: the subscription key is the answer's `object` and
+ * nothing else, so there is no `'*'` subscription and no second read of the
+ * dataset's metadata.
+ *
+ * Rendered on the page path: the real `SchemaRenderer` under a
+ * `SchemaRendererProvider`, this package's own registration, no host prop.
+ * The bare `useDataInvalidation` reader mounted beside the block is the
+ * positive control: it proves the event reached subscribers in this harness.
+ */
+import React from 'react';
+import { describe, it, expect, vi, beforeEach, afterEach } from 'vitest';
+import { render, screen, act, cleanup } from '@testing-library/react';
+import { SchemaRenderer, SchemaRendererProvider, notifyDataChanged, useDataInvalidation } from '@object-ui/react';
+// Side-effect imports at MODULE scope (AGENTS.md's flaky-test rule).
+import '@object-ui/components';
+import './index';
+import type { DataSource } from '@object-ui/types';
+
+type StoredNode = Parameters<typeof SchemaRenderer>[0]['schema'];
+const asAdapter = (fake: object) => fake as unknown as DataSource;
+
+beforeEach(() => {
+  // The dimension-label metadata probe falls back to the global fetch when the
+  // provider carries no `apiFetch`; answer it locally. Not what these cases are about.
+  vi.stubGlobal('fetch', vi.fn(async () => ({ ok: true, status: 200, json: async () => ({}), text: async () => '{}' })));
+});
+afterEach(() => {
+  vi.unstubAllGlobals();
+  cleanup();
+});
+
+const settle = () => act(() => new Promise<void>((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, 150)));
+
+const BASE_OBJECT = 'showcase_project';
+
+type Answer = { rows: Array<Record<string, unknown>>; fields: unknown[]; object?: string };
+
+/**
+ * A `queryDataset`-capable adapter answering a dimension-less selection.
+ * `count` is the number the next answer carries (`null` answers zero rows).
+ * `object` is what every answer names (`undefined` answers the pre-fix shape).
+ */
+function makeKpiSource(opts: { count: number | null; object?: string }) {
+  let count = opts.count;
+  const answer = (): Answer => ({
+    rows: count === null ? [] : [{ project_count: count }],
+    fields: [{ name: 'project_count', type: 'number', label: 'Projects' }],
+    ...(opts.object ? { object: opts.object } : {}),
+  });
+  return {
+    setCount(next: number | null) {
+      count = next;
+    },
+    queryDataset: vi.fn((_dataset: string, _selection?: { dimensions?: string[] }) => Promise.resolve(answer())),
+  };
+}
+
+/** The positive control: a bare reader of the dataset's base object, beside the block. */
+function BusControl() {
+  const nonce = useDataInvalidation(BASE_OBJECT);
+  return <span data-testid="bus-control">{`bus:${nonce}`}</span>;
+}
+
+// The showcase ops dashboard's KPI shape: a `metric` over a dataset, no dimensions.
+const KPI_WIDGET = { id: 'kpi_at_risk', type: 'metric', title: 'At-Risk (Red)', dataset: 'showcase_project_ds', values: ['project_count'] };
+const dashboard = { type: 'dashboard', widgets: [KPI_WIDGET] };
+
+const renderOnPage = (ds: ReturnType<typeof makeKpiSource>) =>
+  render(
+    <SchemaRendererProvider dataSource={asAdapter(ds)}>
+      <BusControl />
+      <SchemaRenderer schema={dashboard as unknown as StoredNode} />
+    </SchemaRendererProvider>,
+  );
+
+describe('a dataset-bound KPI tile re-reads on the data-invalidation bus once its answer names the base object (objectui#11095)', () => {
+  it('a write to the answer’s object re-reads the tile once, in place; a write to another object does not', async () => {
+    const ds = makeKpiSource({ count: 1, object: BASE_OBJECT });
+    const { getByTestId } = renderOnPage(ds);
+    const tileValue = await screen.findByText('1');
+    await settle();
+    expect(ds.queryDataset).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+    // The query really is the dimension-less one this card is about.
+    expect(ds.queryDataset.mock.calls[0][1]?.dimensions).toEqual([]);
+
+    ds.setCount(2);
+    await act(async () => {
+      notifyDataChanged({ objectName: 'some_other_object' });
+    });
+    await settle();
+    expect(ds.queryDataset, 'a change to another object re-read this tile').toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+
+    await act(async () => {
+      notifyDataChanged({ objectName: BASE_OBJECT, recordId: 'p-7' });
+    });
+    await settle();
+    expect(getByTestId('bus-control').textContent, 'control: the event never reached a subscriber').toBe('bus:1');
+    expect(ds.queryDataset, 'the KPI tile never re-read after a write to its base object').toHaveBeenCalledTimes(2);
+    // In place: the same value node now carries the new number.
+    expect(await screen.findByText('2')).toBe(tileValue);
+  });
+
+  it('the unscoped change the console’s timer and Refresh All declare (objectName "*") re-reads the tile once', async () => {
+    const ds = makeKpiSource({ count: 1, object: BASE_OBJECT });
+    const { getByTestId } = renderOnPage(ds);
+    await screen.findByText('1');
+    await settle();
+    expect(ds.queryDataset).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+
+    ds.setCount(3);
+    await act(async () => {
+      notifyDataChanged({ objectName: '*' });
+    });
+    await settle();
+    expect(getByTestId('bus-control').textContent).toBe('bus:1');
+    expect(ds.queryDataset, 'the KPI tile never re-read after an unscoped change').toHaveBeenCalledTimes(2);
+    expect(await screen.findByText('3')).toBeInTheDocument();
+  });
+
+  it('a zero-row first answer that names the object subscribes too, so the first record written reaches the tile', async () => {
+    const ds = makeKpiSource({ count: null, object: BASE_OBJECT });
+    renderOnPage(ds);
+    // A metric over an empty answer reads 0, not an empty state.
+    await screen.findByText('0');
+    await settle();
+    expect(ds.queryDataset).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+
+    ds.setCount(1);
+    await act(async () => {
+      notifyDataChanged({ objectName: BASE_OBJECT });
+    });
+    await settle();
+    expect(ds.queryDataset, 'an empty first answer left the tile unsubscribed').toHaveBeenCalledTimes(2);
+    expect(await screen.findByText('1')).toBeInTheDocument();
+  });
+
+  it('the subscription key is the answer’s object and nothing else: an answer naming none subscribes to nothing', async () => {
+    // The pre-fix producer's dimension-less answer. The tile has no fallback key
+    // (no '*' subscription, no read of the dataset's metadata), so it stays put.
+    const ds = makeKpiSource({ count: 1 });
+    const { getByTestId } = renderOnPage(ds);
+    await screen.findByText('1');
+    await settle();
+    expect(ds.queryDataset).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+
+    await act(async () => {
+      notifyDataChanged({ objectName: '*' });
+    });
+    await settle();
+    expect(getByTestId('bus-control').textContent, 'control: the event never reached a subscriber').toBe('bus:1');
+    expect(ds.queryDataset, 'a tile whose answer names no object re-read on the bus').toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+  });
+});