I think for a first cut we should keep it as simple as possible. First hits to the dashboard (especially after logging in) need to be fast. A dashboard needs to give you a few quick pieces of info about the application and then help you get on with doing what you need to do. For example, show the user a small amount of their recent activity, a few quick stats from GA (just a single "card"?), a few helpful links, done?
Plugins, particularly Google Analytics, could have their own additional dashboard pages. Of course you'd still want some kind of summary stats on the initial dashboard (e.g. visits / pageviews today, or # of current visitors), but a full page would be more useful for placing graphs for weekly / monthly data. For some of the heavier things involving workflow maybe they also deserve their own pages. When you look at content pending approval, scheduled content, content to be reviewed, etc, these are basically like mini reports. You could also include other reports - some of which may already exist in some form - like security audits (last X logins, last X failed logins, ..), and a developer specific dashboard - slightly different to the existing "sys info" - it could do flight checks on FU's, refobjects, object broker stats, webskin caching stats/info, other application health stuff, etc. This would also let us bring some things out of hiding from the various depths of the webtop navigation structure :) cheers, Justin -- Justin Carter http://www.madfellas.com/blog http://twitter.com/justincarter On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 10:28 PM, Geoff Bowers <[email protected]> wrote: > Folks, > > Have been trying to work out how the new overview section of the webtop > should work. I've included my notes below. > > What would you like to see on the Dashboard? > > Any feedback much appreciated, > > GB > > # FarCry Dashboard > > The default page you hit when you login to the webtop. The dashboard will > be a responsive collection of single (300px) and double (600px) cards, > jmasonry'd together. > > (similar to something like this > http://sochi2014.olympics.com.au/news/media) > > These cards will be drawn from a list of information sources; including > core, plugins and the project itself. Each view will be sequenced int he > same way as "sys info" views. > > ## Suggested information sources > > ### core > > - message of the day; static message from a config > - server date/time; to indicate to user what the publishing platform > understands the date/time to be > - other logged in sessions (webtop only) > - items in draft created by the user > - items pending approval (that the user can approve) > - recent activity for the user > - recent activity for everyone else > - recently added images > - recently added files > - community links; documentation,website, etc > - farcry version; indicate if upgrade is available > - coapi conflicts; show any required updates to coapi > > ### cms > > - news and events forward published; approved but prior to publishdate > - number of draft news and event items; with link to filtered view of same > > ### google analytics > > - general graph of site traffic > - most popular content items > > ## etc > > Each plugin or project can have none or multiple cards. Each is just a > simple, ajax-loaded webskin. > > -- > You received this message cos you are subscribed to "farcry-dev" Google > group. > To post, email: [email protected] > To unsubscribe, email: [email protected] > For more options: http://groups.google.com/group/farcry-dev > -------------------------------- > Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/farcry > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "farcry-dev" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message cos you are subscribed to "farcry-dev" Google group. To post, email: [email protected] To unsubscribe, email: [email protected] For more options: http://groups.google.com/group/farcry-dev -------------------------------- Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/farcry --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "farcry-dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
