[Building Sakai] Announcing Dashboard 1.0.0

[James Eng]

We have a write up about adding support for other types of entities in
dashboard, but it needs to be updated because the two interfaces
(EntityType and EventProcessor) have changed as we worked toward the
1.0.0 release. Also, that will be part of our conference presentation
for developers. We'll have slides from Adrian about his experience
integrating YAFT with dashboard.

Jim


On 4/11/12, Matthew Jones <matthew at longsight.com> wrote:
> There was a post about a week ago from Adrian talking about how he
> integrated Yaft into Dashboard. I think it's kind of just on people to do
> it (like with entitybroker) :)
>
> http://collab.sakaiproject.org/pipermail/sakai-dev/2012-March/016310.html
>
> Just looking at the code it seems like it involves
> implementingorg.sakaiproject.dash.listener.EventProcessor and creating
> items when
> specific events related to your tool occur.
>
> Perhaps a more in-depth writeup about this (Allowing a tool that doesn't
> yet use dashboard to use dashboard) exists or will be provided! ;)
>
> I'm sure we'll have this discussion at the conference.
>
> -Matthew
>
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 8:59 PM, Steve Swinsburg
> <steve.swinsburg at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Very nice.
>>
>> What are the plans for others tools to participate in the dashboard? For
>> example if an instructor adds a forum post to a site or a connection
>> request is approved?
>>
>> I'd also love to have a discussion around how a dashboard such as this
>> could replace the My Workspace site altogether, so rather than being a
>> collection of tools that you need to navigate to individually, it could
>> all
>> be accessible on the one screen.
>>
>> cheers,
>> Steve
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 12/04/2012, at 6:02 AM, Chris Kretler wrote:
>>
>> > Hello all,
>> >
>> > We are happy to announce the 1.0.0 release of the Sakai Dashboard.  The
>> > Dashboard is a Contrib tool that provides a user-centric synoptic view
>> > of "Assignments and Events" -- showing upcoming Assignments and Calendar
>> > Events -- and "Recent Activity" -- showing updates about  Resources,
>> > Drop Box files, Assignments and Announcements.  The Dashboard provides
>> > the end user a concise landing spot with links to their most pertinent
>> > content.  It also gives the user the ability to customize the interface
>> > by starring important items and hiding less critical ones.
>> >
>> > An overview video can be found here: http://vimeo.com/39203463
>> >
>> > The 1.0.0 tag of the Dashboard shows activity related to resources,
>> > assignments, announcements and calendar events.  With a modest
>> > development effort, activity related to other types of Sakai entities
>> > could be shown in the Dashboard.  We will provide up-to-date information
>> > about that process in confluence.
>> >
>> > The Dashboard has been through several rounds of functional testing.
>> > Most known issues have been fixed.  There has been no attempt at load
>> > testing and we would welcome any input from a group with the resources
>> > to perform load testing.
>> >
>> > The 1.0.0 tag can be downloaded from subversion at this URL:
>> > https://source.sakaiproject.org/contrib/dashboard/tags/1.0.0/
>> >
>> > The 1.0.0 version of the Dashboard will build and deploy with an
>> > unpatched version of sakai trunk or with a patched version of sakai
>> > 2.9.x.  Revisions are needed in sakai core and kernel to build with
>> > 2.9.x.  Information about patching the 2.9.x branch of sakai or any tag
>> > made from that branch can be found in this confluence page:
>> > https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/x/zYHSB
>> >
>> > Details of the Dashboard project are described in this confluence page:
>> > https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/x/zIWCB
>> >
>> > Bugs and other issues related to the Dashboard are tracked in this JIRA
>> > project: https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/DASH
>> >
>> > Unresolved issues related to the Dashboard can be found here:
>> > https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/x/xYHSB
>> >
>> > We plan to release a 1.0.1 tag of the Dashboard very soon.  We expect to
>> > include fixes for some or all of the following tickets in the 1.0.1 tag:
>> >
>> >    https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/DASH-216 - Need to expire and
>> > purge dashboard items
>> >    https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/DASH-225 - "View in Site" link
>> > for announcements does not open in site
>> >    https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/DASH-228 - Dropbox items shown
>> > too widely with confusing info
>> >    https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/DASH-220 - Hidden announcements
>> > shown in dashboard under some circumstances
>> >    https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/DASH-227 - Entity creator does
>> > not see some items in dashboard if entity access is restricted by group
>> > and creator is not in group
>> >
>> > Additional work has been outlined for inclusion in a 1.1 version of the
>> > Dashboard, but the scope of that work remains undecided and no timetable
>> > has been set.
>> >
>> > We invite contributions of effort to complete further versions of the
>> > Dashboard, including the 1.0.2 release (if needed) and the 1.1 version.
>> >
>> > - The Dashboard Project Team
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