Package: vs.dashboardmanager
vs.dashboardmanagervs.dashboardmanagerprovides 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. Considervs.dashboardmanageras a kind of remote adminstration tool for dashboards.Installationaddvs.dashboardmanagerto theeggsandzcmloptions of
your buildout.cfg and re-run buildout (under Plone 4 you can omit thezcmlslug)either create a new Plone site using theDashboard Managerextension profile
or install it through the Plone site setup control panelUsageuse the dashboard management option from the Plone control panel or add@@dashboard-managerto the URL of the Plone site to see the dashboard
manager. It will list the available dashboards. When installed from scratch it
should say “No portletpage template available”.create a new Dashboard Manager from the standard “Add” drop-down menu in the
folder contents view. It is a standard content-type and available anywhere on
the site.provide title, description and body text. This will be shown above the
portlets the dashboard manager will contain later. Save.add some portlets (using thePortletstab). The portlets are left as-is
and may be configured to your liking. You may add up to four portlets here.push the portlet into the dashboard of a user or a group using
theassigmentstab of the Dashboard Manager. Pick a Plone group from the
drop-down field or type the name of an individual user and push “Assign
portlets to dashboard(s)”.as a user that had a dashboard manager assigned to visit the /dashboard. It
should show the portlets you assigned.a portlet page is a page containing portlets as its content and can not be
assigned to users or roles, but behaves like a normal page. Add portlets using
thePortletstab. The portlets are left as-is and may be configured to your
liking. You may add up to four portlets here.if the is not what you expect check the criteria by which your portlets
show their content. I.e., the events portlet may show published events only,
etc.Testedtested with Plone 3.3.Xtested with Plone 4.0.XLicencevs.dashboardmanageris published under the GNU Public Licence V 2 (GPL 2)Creditsvs.dashboardmanageris based and influenced bycollective.portletpageby Martin Aspeli.vs.dashboardmanageris uses in parts ofcollective.portletpage.Thanks to Veit Schiele and Immanuel Diakonie Group for the funding.Carsten Raddatz provided the german translation.AuthorsAndreas Junginfo@zopyx.comwww.zope.comVeit Schielekontakt@veit-schiele.dewww.veit-schiele.deChangelog0.3.5 (2015-06-06)Moved to github [veit]Plone 4.3 compatibility [veit]0.3.4 (2011-03-30)documentation update0.3.3 (2010-12-03)Added Spanish translation [hvelarde]Some basic tests were added [hvelarde]0.3.2 (2010-11-12)Removed unused adapter override [micecchi]0.3.1 (2010-11-09)Fixed dashboardManager archetype and set adding permission [micecchi]0.3.0 (2010-09-20)Created a new object that extends portlet pages, but doesn’t change their features [micecchi]Fixed portlet provider interfaces. Now  you can add only the portlet of dashboard-manager [micecchi]Fixed assignment copy. Now the portlets are deep-copied in user’s dashboard and not simply assigned.
In this way when an user modify one portlet in his dashboard, this change doesn’t affect other user’s portlets. [micecchi]0.2.9 (2010-08-06)improved error handling0.2.8 (2010-08-05)i18n updatesome fixesdocumentation update0.2.7 (2010-08-02)preliminary German translationsimple UI for the removal of portlets from arbitrary user
dashboards0.2.6 (2010-07-30)auto-completion for group filter0.2.5 (2010-07-30)added simple dashboard introspection for a single user
or all users of a group0.2.4 (2010-07-30)better PAS integration0.2.3 (2010-07-30)group filter now working with LDAP0.2.2 (2010-07-29)filtering for group0.2.1 (2010-07-27)fixed retrieval of group members in assignment code0.2.0 (2010-07-27)Plone 4 compatibility0.1.5 (2010-07-27)disabled @@my-dashboard-pages viewminor cleanup0.1.4 (2010-07-27)UI tweakmore i18n0.1.3 (2010-07-27)some UI tweakicon for control panel0.1.2 (2010-07-27)i18ncode cleanupmoving from roles to groupsremoved virtual groups from selectionssome cleanuplogger supportrephrasing of texts0.1.1 (2010-07-26)skin cleanup0.1.0 (2010-07-26)Initial release