vs.dashboardmanager 0.2.8

An extended Dashboard manager based on collective.portletpage

vs.dashboardmanager

vs.dashboardmanager provides a templating mechanism for dashboard pages and a push mechanism for transfering portlets of dashboard template pages into the dashboard of individual site members or all members of a Plone group. Consider vs.dashboardmanager as a kind of remote adminstration tool for dashboards.

Installation

• add vs.dashboardmanager to the eggs and zcml options of your buildout.cfg and re-run buildout (under Plone 4 you can omit the zcml slug)

• either create a new Plone site using the Dashboard Manager extension profile or install it through the Plone site setup control panel

Usage

• use the dashboard management option from the Plone control panel or add @@dashboard-manager to the URL of the Plone site

• create a new portlet page (standard content-type and available as add-able content from the standard “Add” drop-down in the folder contents view with some portlets (using the Portlets tab) of the portlet page

• push the portlet into the dashboard of a user or a group using the assigments tab of a portlet page

Tested

• tested with Plone 3.3.X

• tested with Plone 4.0.X

Licence

vs.dashboardmanager is published under the GNU Public Licence V 2 (GPL 2)

Credits

vs.dashboardmanager is based and influenced by collective.portletpage by Martin Aspeli. vs.dashboardmanager is uses in parts of collective.portletpage.

Thanks to Veit Schiele and Immanuel Diakonie Group for the funding.

Carsten Raddatz provided the german translation.

Authors

Andreas Jung

[e-mail]

www.zope.com

Veit Schiele

[e-mail]

www.veit-schiele.de

Changelog

0.2.8 (2010-08-05)

• i18n update

• some fixes

• documentation update

0.2.7 (2010-08-02)

• preliminary German translation

• simple UI for the removal of portlets from arbitrary user dashboards

0.2.6 (2010-07-30)

• auto-completion for group filter

0.2.5 (2010-07-30)

• added simple dashboard introspection for a single user or all users of a group

0.2.4 (2010-07-30)

• better PAS integration

0.2.3 (2010-07-30)

• group filter now working with LDAP

0.2.2 (2010-07-29)

• filtering for group

0.2.1 (2010-07-27)

• fixed retrieval of group members in assignment code

0.2.0 (2010-07-27)

• Plone 4 compatibility

0.1.5 (2010-07-27)

• disabled @@my-dashboard-pages view

• minor cleanup

0.1.4 (2010-07-27)

• UI tweak

• more i18n

0.1.3 (2010-07-27)

• some UI tweak

• icon for control panel

0.1.2 (2010-07-27)

• i18n

• code cleanup

• moving from roles to groups

• removed virtual groups from selections

• some cleanup

• logger support

• rephrasing of texts

0.1.1 (2010-07-26)

• skin cleanup

0.1.0 (2010-07-26)

• Initial release