dashboard

ASP.NET Dashboard / Widgets

I'd like to build a dashboard interface for an application I am working on. I want users to logon and get a birds eye view of the status of applications, outstanding issues, etc. I'm wondering if there are some good, pre-made controls rather than writing these from the ground up? ...

Mac dashboard widgets not loading external images

I set out to make a quick Mac OS X dashboard widget. I read the documentation and was pleased to find out they use simple HTML, JS, and CSS. I created my widget and it works when I open the .html file in Firefox, but it does not work when I install the widget to the dashboard. The widget is simple: it displays the most recent image from...

Android Dashboard Pattern

In Tim Bray's latest Android blog post he mentions the "dashboard" ui pattern (what is used for the Twitter app, Facebook app, etc. Is this layout as simple as a GridView with Buttons or is it something else? ...

how to configure filter in PPS Dashboard

Hi All, I created Tabular value filter and configured to report in dashboard designer but when I preview the report 'This report requires a default or user-defined value for the report parameter 'swcustomer'' How to i resolve this issue. Thank you for your help. Kumar ...

Comparison of Hudson, CDash, CruisonControl, TeamCity for Continuous Integration / Builder

I found most people talk about Hudson for simple and free continuous integration. Now personally I'm not fond of its interface which I find very messy, and I found almost no one talking about CDash -- I love CMake and CTest seem nice too. Could you give for your favorite continuous integration server/builder/tester/dashboard a short des...

Libraries and pseudocode for physical Dashboard/Status board

OK, so I bought a 46" screen for the office yesterday, and with the imminent risk of being accused for setting up an "elaborate World Cup procrastination scheme", I'd better show my colleagues what it's meant for ;) Looking at my simple sketch, and at these great projects from which I was inspired, I would like to get some input on the ...

Building an analytics dashboard in Rails

I'm looking to build a Rails app to do internal reporting (make charts or general data visualizations, create reports, show statistical analyses, etc.) on data my company collects. What would be helpful in building this? For example, any Rails/Javascript libraries I should be familiar with, or any open source analytics apps or existing ...

How frequently must a dashboard update to truly be a dashboard?

So if I had a dashboard of political parties in North Korea, is it really a dashboard? To me a dashboard should be regularly updated, having the possibility that a number or indicator could change at a regular interval... and for now I'll say regular is less than once per day. Also in today's usage, a dashboard seems to mean more and m...

Develop MDD / C++ Dashboards with Sonar or something else?

I am looking for the functionality of sonar. Almost all our projects are Model Driven, and the code centric ones are in C++. We generally use trac and bitten for our CI needs with Make (with some help from Rhapsody) providing the build magic. Being pragmatic, is Sonar the way to go (in lite mode, maybe?) or what other tools should I be...

Light-weight Database for storing user preferences of widgets

Hey all, I'm looking for a database that I can distribute with a web application, that will store user preferences for various widgets. A good example is the kind of database design that apple uses to store information about its widgets. So the weather widget stores location, while the notes widget stores notes. I think I'm looking f...

Problem with connecting to the database when creating a report in Performance Point's Dashboard Designer

I have a problem when creating a report in Performance Point's Dashboard Designer. I am able to create a data source and the connection is successful but when I create a report using this data source I get the following error: "The PerformancePoint Server could not connect to the specified data source. Verify that either the current use...

WordPress: hide widgets from Post Window programmatically

Hey guys, I'm burning my brain to find someway to hide some widgets from "Post Window" programmatically. I found an article on WordPress.org that worked fine to hide some widgets from the Dashboard Window (ref.: http://codex.wordpress.org/Dashboard_Widgets_API#Advanced:_Removing_Dashboard_Widgets). But unfortunately I didn't find any w...

Simple dashboard application

Hi all, I am trying to have some fun with dashboard widgets, so I tried a simple application : there will be a button over the widget which when clicked will open StackOverflow website in safari To implement it, I tried this: Created a custom dashboard widget. Added a button to it from library. Associated gotoStackOverflow ...

How do I stop Wordpress dashboard widgets from being dragged?

I'm setting up Wordpress 3.0.1 for a novice user. The Dashboard widgets are appropriately placed, and I'd like them to stay that way. As far as I know, there's no add_filter or add_action hook to prevent dragging, so another approach would be to make a plugin that uses jQuery to disable dragging. What handler(s) would I override -- click...

Development Team Dashboards?

I'm looking to install a "dashboard" in our team area. This'll be an old PC or laptop, connected to a relatively large wall-mounted monitor. The plan is that it should show live build and test status, and other stuff. We're in a fairly open area, so it'd be good if it showed information useful to the team as well as to external people. ...

Gauges for Compact Framework Applications

Can anybody recommend gauge components for Compact Framework applications? The only gauge toolkit that I've found so far is Perpetuum's Instrumentation Widgets for PDA. Perpetuum's gauges aren't visually appealing to me and also seem to be supported only up to .NET CF 2.0. Are there any alternatives? ...

buliding a website like dropthings.

Dear all, I was assigned to develop a dropthings-like project http://dropthings.omaralzabir.com/ so do you have any clue from where should i start ?? Thanks in advance ...

wordpress 3 and turbo link

when upgrading to Wordpress 3.01 I thought the turbo link would disappear from the dashboard, as per http://codex.wordpress.org/Tools_Tools_SubPanel . However, the Turbo link still shows up in the header of my dashboard after the upgrade. How do I remove the Turbo link (even if I have to edit the core files to achieve this) ? ...

In Wordpress how do you add a link to the Dashboard menu box in the top left?

I found a way to add a "Dashboard Widget", but that is not what I want. All I want is a link in the first menu on the top left that says "Dashboard". ...

Reverse-engineering a Dashboard Widget?

Is it possible? I understand that Dashboard widgets are simply Javascript packaged up nicely, but is it possible to view the source of that Javascript? I realise this might be a silly question, but before I create a Dashboard widget for my site accessing an API URL I don't want to be public yet, I'd just like to check. And yes, I know...