Feasibility of using multiple palettes in a single dashboard

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Feasibility of using multiple palettes in a single dashboard

Postby moadbus » Fri Sep 18, 2009 7:16 pm

Is it feasible to create/put multiple palettes in a single Dashboard. Each palette can represent one category of components. Is there an alternate way to approach this if it is not feasible for multiple palettes?
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Re: Feasibility of using multiple palettes in a single dashboard

Postby JIDE Support » Fri Sep 18, 2009 9:53 pm

The gadget palette is nothing but a list of buttons. They can be arranged whatever way you want. However the current design never considered people want to customize it so there is no existing support to do what you want. I would imagine you can make GadgetPalette a tabbed pane and each tab contains a list of buttons. Would it be enough? If yes, I can refactor the code to give you some protected methods to override to do what you want to do .

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Re: Feasibility of using multiple palettes in a single dashboard

Postby moadbus » Sun Sep 20, 2009 4:07 pm

Tabs of Palettes would work perfectly. I would appreciate code that would make GadgetPalette a tabbed pane and give the developer more control. This will allow us to complete our evaluation of Jidesoft Dashboards and proceed forward with the next steps. When can I get access to this code so that I can see it working this way, and take it to management as a recommended framework to use?
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Re: Feasibility of using multiple palettes in a single dashboard

Postby JIDE Support » Sun Sep 20, 2009 7:13 pm

I uploaded a pre release at http://www.jidesoft.com/evaluation/arch ... e.eval.zip. The two methods are added are protected methods - createGadgetButtonContainer and recreateGadgetButtons. You can refer to javadoc to see how to override these two methods to do what you needed. BTW, in order to subclass GadgetPalette, you need to override createGadgetPalette of SingleDashboardHolder, DashboardTabbedPane or DashbordDocumentPane depending on which dashboard implementation you are using.

The reason we can't do this in our core code is because we don't have a category concept for the gadgets. However you can subclass Gadget to create CategorizedGadget for example which has a new property called category. Then based on this category property, you can override these two methods to put different gadget buttons to different tabs.

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Re: Feasibility of using multiple palettes in a single dashboard

Postby moadbus » Sun Sep 20, 2009 9:01 pm

Thank you for the quick reply. I will download and try it and will ping you in case of any questions.

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Re: Feasibility of using multiple palettes in a single dashboard

Postby moadbus » Sun Sep 20, 2009 10:53 pm

In which class are createGadgetButtonContainer and recreateGadgetButtons added?
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Re: Feasibility of using multiple palettes in a single dashboard

Postby JIDE Support » Mon Sep 21, 2009 8:17 am

GadgetPalette.

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Re: Feasibility of using multiple palettes in a single dashboard

Postby moadbus » Mon Sep 21, 2009 4:36 pm

Maybe I am missing out on something because I cannot find these methods in either the class file, or the src-stub or the javadoc. I downloaded the software from the link you had previously posted in this thread ( jide.2.8.0-pre.eval.zip ). Can you verify?

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Re: Feasibility of using multiple palettes in a single dashboard

Postby JIDE Support » Mon Sep 21, 2009 5:06 pm

Sorry, I uploaded the wrong file. I will make another build and let you know when the download is available.

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Re: Feasibility of using multiple palettes in a single dashboard

Postby JIDE Support » Mon Sep 21, 2009 6:22 pm

Please try to download it again.

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Re: Feasibility of using multiple palettes in a single dashboard

Postby JIDE Support » Wed Nov 04, 2009 10:40 am

Just so you know, this is fixed in 2.8.0 release.

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Re: Feasibility of using multiple palettes in a single dashboard

Postby moadbus » Wed Nov 04, 2009 2:01 pm

Hi,

Thanks for the information. Does the 2.8.0 trail version support multiple palettes in a single dashboard? Do you have an example of this?

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Re: Feasibility of using multiple palettes in a single dashboard

Postby moadbus » Wed Nov 04, 2009 2:03 pm

If you can provide me with a proper working example I can comfortably recommend this framework to my company management.

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Re: Feasibility of using multiple palettes in a single dashboard

Postby JIDE Support » Wed Nov 04, 2009 2:09 pm

What we did is that we exposed two method for you to override so that you can customize your own palette buttons. The related methods are GadgetPalette#createGadgetButtonContainer() and GadgetPalette#recreateGadgetButton().

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