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General Discussion => Membership => Topic started by: Phil Hirons, Jr. on August 17, 2015, 02:01:27 PM

Title: Modularize a Dashboard?!?
Post by: Phil Hirons, Jr. on August 17, 2015, 02:01:27 PM
https://www.capnhq.gov/news/news17Aug15.htm (https://www.capnhq.gov/news/news17Aug15.htm)
QuoteIn an effort to speed up the viewing of the Commander's Dashboard, we are breaking up the application into separate modules.

From Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dashboard_(management_information_systems) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dashboard_(management_information_systems))
QuoteIn management information systems, a dashboard is "an easy to read, often single page, real-time user interface, showing a graphical presentation of the current status (snapshot) and historical trends of an organization's or computer appliances key performance indicators to enable instantaneous and informed decisions to be made at a glance."

I could understand clicking on a section on the dashboard to get more detailed data for a section but...
Title: Modularize a Dashboard?!?
Post by: Storm Chaser on August 17, 2015, 03:20:09 PM
Exactly. I can get detailed reports if I need them. I use the dashboard to get a quick snapshot. I never had issues with load times before.
Title: Re: Modularize a Dashboard?!?
Post by: NC Hokie on August 17, 2015, 03:32:49 PM
QuoteIn an effort to speed up the viewing of the Commander's Dashboard, we are breaking up the application into separate modules.

I would imagine that the dashboard gets bogged down when viewing wing and region data sets, but it now takes this lowly squadron commander nine times longer to view the same data than it did yesterday.  And I'm not seeing any noticeable increase in the load times of any of the individual pages.
Title: Re: Modularize a Dashboard?!?
Post by: TheSkyHornet on August 17, 2015, 06:52:55 PM
Quote from: Phil Hirons, Jr. on August 17, 2015, 02:01:27 PM
https://www.capnhq.gov/news/news17Aug15.htm (https://www.capnhq.gov/news/news17Aug15.htm)
QuoteIn an effort to speed up the viewing of the Commander's Dashboard, we are breaking up the application into separate modules.

From Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dashboard_(management_information_systems) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dashboard_(management_information_systems))
QuoteIn management information systems, a dashboard is "an easy to read, often single page, real-time user interface, showing a graphical presentation of the current status (snapshot) and historical trends of an organization's or computer appliances key performance indicators to enable instantaneous and informed decisions to be made at a glance."

I could understand clicking on a section on the dashboard to get more detailed data for a section but...

Meh, a dashboard doesn't have to be a quick-click, one-page setup.

But I'm curious as to what the changes will be to ensure you can view the materials you need without having to navigate through 10 pages.
Title: Re: Modularize a Dashboard?!?
Post by: NC Hokie on August 17, 2015, 07:42:25 PM
Quote from: TheSkyHornet on August 17, 2015, 06:52:55 PM
But I'm curious as to what the changes will be to ensure you can view the materials you need without having to navigate through 10 pages.

"[N]avigating through 10 pages," IS the change.  Data that used to be visible on one screen now requires clicking through nine screens to see all of it.
Title: Re: Modularize a Dashboard?!?
Post by: arajca on August 18, 2015, 01:40:37 PM
After I complained to the Help Desk, a link was added for "Full View", which shows everything.
Title: Re: Modularize a Dashboard?!?
Post by: Phil Hirons, Jr. on August 18, 2015, 07:27:41 PM
A nice resolution. Tip 'o the hat to NHQ IT