So prior to 1.5.13, if you didn’t have -DisableAutoStart set, any changes in ‘C:\ProgramData\UniversalAutomation\Repository’ will restart all the dashboards.
In 1.5.13, you can remove -DisableAutoStart and all dashboards will start when the server starts up. If you include -AutoDeploy, then any changes to ‘C:\ProgramData\UniversalAutomation\Repository’ will cause the dashboard to restart. If you don’t include -AutoDeploy, they won’t restart automatically and you’ll need to restart then when you choose to deploy a new version.
The reason we are checking for any changes in ‘C:\ProgramData\UniversalAutomation\Repository’ is that people will commonly have multiple files that make up a dashboard. We’ve considered putting each dashboard in their own folder to work around this issue but that hasn’t been implemented yet.
If users are uploading files to your dashboard, I would suggest storing them outside of ‘C:\ProgramData\UniversalAutomation\Repository’ to avoid this issue.