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- Configure the HTML editor
- Building blocks for user interface functionality
- Layouts
- Sections
- Defining the columns of a table
- Forms
- Form filters
- Searching for data
- Queries: Introduction
- Queries: Advanced search
- Queries: Columns in table
- Cross tables
- Queries: Saving and opening reports
- Dashboards
- Drop down menu
- Custom (user friendly) URLs
- How to change standard messages and labels
- Tree layout
- Velocity forms
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Dashboards
A dashboard is a part of an application that is designed to be easy to read and control (similar to a car's dashboard). Its function is to provide a "bird's eye view" of what is going on in the application (and its surroundings).
In the CrossmarX Application Engine a dashboard consists of one or more pages (presented as tab panels). Each tab panel consists of rectangular blocks. Each block contains a small piece of information. The source of this information may be the applications database or an external source. When many external sources are used, the dashboards role is like a portal application.
How to create a dashboard
A dashboard can only be created by the application manager. Click the "Dashboard pages" button in the backstage, then create a new page. You have to set one or more user groups, otherwise the page will NOT be displayed. You can add the number of rows.
A page consists of rows of blocks. You can add blocks by pressing the "Add dashboard block"-button in the details view of a row. A block can have a title and should have content. Content can contain (a combination of) the following items:
- html or velocity content
HTML code, that may contain velocity. In case you have a velocity script on file, you can also use #parse('/myapp/myfile').
- a stored query
It is possible to select a stored query. The query results can be shown in real time, but you can also schedule the queries to be cached once a day or once an hour. For time-consuming queries this will speed up the dashboards. You can add a filter field so you can change value of the filter on the dashboard. More on queries here.
- Velocity file
A direct url to a Velocity file
- a gadget
A gadget is a small piece of web content that can be placed in a dashboard block. Gadgets can be defined independently from a particular dashboard, and added to a list of available gadgets. When defining a particular block, gadgets can be selected from this list to be added.
It's possible to change the column of a block. See image below:
At the details of a block you can specify a Velocity file at 'Content url', see image below
How to open the dashboard?
The shorthand to open the dashboard is /engine/dashboard. If a user has more dashboard pages, the pages will be shown as tabs. To open a specific page with a url, use /engine?service=dashboard&cmd=open&page=PAGE_ID, with PAGE_ID the id of the specific dashboard page.