[Building Sakai] Announcing Dashboard 1.0.0

[Mark Breuker]

Hi Chris,

This looks very nice indeed. We also developed a similar tool at our institution that integrates with Profile2 (see attachment). Perhaps there is a way to share the work on the activity services?

Cheers,

Mark

Mark Breuker
Product Owner
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From: sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [mailto:sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of Chris Kretler
Sent: woensdag 11 april 2012 22:03
To: sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org; sakai-user at collab.sakaiproject.org
Subject: [Building Sakai] Announcing Dashboard 1.0.0

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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