Where will you use JIDE Dashboard?


Last Friday we released 2.2 version. This is a major release. In this release, we introduced a new product called JIDE Dashboard. This is again a customer contract but we kept the copyright within JIDE so that we can release it as a product.

Dashboard

What is JIDE Dashboard exactly? If you want me to explain in one sentense, I will probably say it’s a customizable home page. But it’s more than that. It is worth noting that the dashboard concept is used widely in the computer industry. Mac OSX has Dashboard . If you google “dashboard”, the first entry is actually Mac OSX Dashboard. I am glad that they didn’t trademark it. Microsoft Vista has Sidebar  and Yahoo! has Yahoo! Widgets . All three are all for the same purpose. On the other hand, Google’s iGoogle and Yahoo’s My Yahoo!  are web implementation of the same concept. JIDE Dashboard is probably more similar to the last two.

The whole purpose of JIDE Dashboard is to allow your users to drag-n-drop and customize the page they want to see. You as developer just provide the gadgets. Your user will design the layout and choose the gadgets. I mentioned two places that you can possibly use JIDE Dashboard.

  1. In a stock trading application, to display each stock’s chart as gadget
  2. In a network application, to display different network device’s real-time information

There are probably many other places that JIDE Dashboard can be used. So if you can think of a place, please post a comment below. Looking forward to seeing some great ideas!

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October 16th, 2007
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October 16, 2007 at 11:57 am

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mazy
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November 1, 2007 at 4:00 pm

In our application built on JIDE Docking Framework, we open multiple document pages in the workspace. We’re considering using JIDE Dashboard as the default document page user sees when opening the application. It could list recently used documents, statistics, user activity etc.

We’ve actually developed something very similar to dashboard for use on our document forms. We call it subpanels and it’s two-column design with draggable, collapsable panels based on MiG Layout. It’s possible to drag given subpanel in such a way that it takes one or two column width.

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David Qiao
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November 1, 2007 at 4:02 pm

Hi mazy,

That’s cool. Currently JIDE Dashboard doesn’t support column spanning because of the underlying layout manager. I am glad to see you make it working using MigLayout. Something we can give it a try too in the future.