[Building Sakai] Announcing Dashboard 1.0.0

Mustansar Mehmood mustansar at rice.edu
Thu Apr 12 12:35:31 PDT 2012 

I am looking for Dashboard source and install instructions. Could 
someone point me to the right direction?
Thanks,
Mustansar

On 4/12/12 10:54 AM, Jim Eng wrote:
> I started to update the documentation for adding new types of sakai 
> entities to the dashboard.  It is in a confluence page:
>
>     https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/x/tZmCB
>
>
> I'm about half-way through with this.  I think the part about 
> implementing EventProcessor is complete and up-to-date.  The part 
> about implementing EntityType still needs work.  The javadocs for 
> these two interfaces may be helpful also.
>
> To add support for a particular type of entity in dashboard, you would 
> need to create one implementation of EntityType and several 
> implementations of EventProcessor.  You would then register these with 
> DashboardLogic.
>
> I'll post another message when I've completed work on the confluence 
> page (not today).
>
> Jim
>
>
> On Apr 11, 2012, at 9:24 PM, Matthew Jones 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 <mailto: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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