Dashboard customization
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Hi Guys,
RDM dashboard is a great tool where you've all the built-in actions and tools. The downside is that you can't customize it to fit different types of connections/needs. Sometimes it gets confusing to have add-ons and remote tools that don't make sense for a particular session type (i.e we have a lot of iLO sessions and for this type of session "Remote Printer" is available).
I know it's a challenge to design a fully customizable dashboard in WinForms. I was playing with Azure custom dashboards the other days and I thought their approach would fit in RDM.
Would it make sense to replace the current Winforms dashboard with a chromium engine and have a fully blown HTML5 dashboard in an Iframe?
HTML/Javascript where designed for this kind of challenges.
I've included a gif from Microsoft website to show the custom dashboard concept:
Azure's dashboards have a canvas with a grid and you can drag and drop "widgets" to make your custom view.
I think this approach has a lot of potential. It would give us the customization we need in a clean and proven approach while allowing endless integrations with other tools.
There's a video on youtube showing the Azure custom dashboard in action - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yovW5bkjIB4
Rafael
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Hi,
This would be great but this is the kind of features that could take 6 months to develop. We will need to create a kind of local web server to return the data to the dashboard. I will try to keep this in mind but I can't promise you anything on the short term.
Regards
David Hervieux
Hi guys,
The dashboard has developed a lot in the last few years and the categories (expired entries, checkouts, etc.) are also displayed in a great way. However, I have not found a way to add my own sections. For example, it would be cool to show the disabled entries etc.
Is there a possibility to add own elements and filters? If not, would it be possible to implement this with reasonable effort?
Best regards
Hello,
This is a good idea. I will add this to our todo list. This could be similar to the smart folder that we have.
Regards
David Hervieux
Hello David,
thanks for the fast feedback, sounds great :) If it were possible to work with tags like when using the Smart Folder feature and then add your own categories to the dashboard, that would be awesome.
Hi,
I just wanted to ask if there are any news on that? :)
BR
Hello,
We haven't implemented this yet but I have increased the priority.
Regards
David Hervieux
Hello,
after 3 years, I can't find this feature. Do you have news for us?
Hello,
I will be completely honest. This is a feature I really want to add, but we are in the process of moving away from an HTML-generated dashboard to a native Avalonia UI dashboard (this is only the cross-platform UI framework, not really important). This means that we will be able to achieve more powerful and optimized widgets on all our RDM platforms. The set us back a little, but it will be much easier after that.
Regards
David Hervieux