[Building Sakai] Announcing Dashboard 1.0.0

[Jim Eng]

One more note about the mobile environment:  

The Dashboard displays OK in sakai's PDA portal, but some important features are not working there at the moment.  There is a JIRA ticket for that:

https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/DASH-217 -- Activity items don't expand in PDA portal

It looks like the problem is actually a small glitch in the PDA, which should be fixed soon:

https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-22047 -- Request for response with content-type of application/json returns html in PDA portal 

That will allow people to use the dashboard as a landing page for mobile devices.  But the dashboard display in mobile devices is less than perfect.  We have a JIRA ticket for implementing special views for mobile devices:

https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/DASH-229 -- Create special views of dashboard for mobile devices 

The idea is reduce the amount of information shown by default and use disclosures to show additional details when needed.  We might eliminate a column or two in the default view so it would fit the screen in mobile devices.  This has not been designed yet.  If somebody wanted to get involved in the dashboard project, this could be a good project to take on. 

Thanks.

Jim


On Apr 11, 2012, at 5:47 PM, Nate Angell wrote:

> Very cool!
> 
> This seems like the same set of activities that one might want to see
> in a mobile environment. Has the Dashboard team given any thought to
> offering a web service or API to the same dashboard "events" as a
> stream? I imagine the same information could be gathered together via
> existing web services, etc, but maybe it would make things simpler for
> a mobile app to just reflect the same thing as the dashboard.
> 
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> On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 8:02 PM, Chris Kretler <ckretler at umich.edu> 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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