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Tony Holmes
Oct 25, 2011, 6:10:02 AM10/25/11
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The dumb part with respect to most of you guys is that I am a non-programmer so am unfamiliar with the Google Apps Script environment.
Anyway... watched some Google I/O 2001 YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZtgT4jgnE8) and was impressed with the potential of Dashboards to present "live" data feeds to charts... i.e. using CategoryFilter, RangeFilter etc to present different views on data held in Docs Spreadsheets.
The company I work for is a supplier to Google and we have an internal "Go" site, however to try this stuff out set up my own Google Site as a trial (https://sites.google.com/site/tonytestforcharts/) .The idea is to ultimately host the dashboards on the internal Site.
The problem I have is that I have discovered I don't have access to the <head> of the document to load libraries and it appears Google sites doesn't allow scripts to run anyway, unless through gadgets (I think).... non-programmer so dooh!
Questions:
Can this be done through Google sites or am I barking up the wrong tree?
Or is there a higher level access for Google sites to allow access to the <head> section and run scripts? And if so how do I get this?
Any help you wizards can offer a muggle will be much appreciated.
Riccardo Govoni ☢
Nov 1, 2011, 11:45:48 AM11/1/11
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Sorry for the late answer.
We recently rolled out a feature that lets you use some aspects of charts directly from Google Sites (see http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2011/09/visualize-your-data-with-charts-in.html ) but we don't offer yet direct support for Dashboards.
To use dashboards you must be able to edit the html source of the page where you're inserting the dashboard into, something that Sites does not allow. So if you write an html page that contains a dashboard, you'd have to host it somewhere else.
As a workaround, you could then later surface the dashboard inside a Google Site using a gadget that lets you embed external content in a site, like one of the many iframe gadgets available (menu "Insert > More Gadgets" when you are editing a Site page).
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Tony Holmes
Nov 2, 2011, 5:44:31 AM11/2/11
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Hi Riccardo,
thank you for the clear and unambiguous answer... it settles a
discussion I have had with a number of different folks while trying to
understand if and how the various Google elements (Docs - Sites -
Chart tools) could work together.
I had more or less come to the conclusion that what I was trying to
achieve was not possible (at least for the present)... but it's good
to get a clear answer.
As you suggest I have been working at putting something together that
can be hosted elsewhere... now all I have to do is get to grips with
Javascript coding!
Thanks again for your response.
Tony
On Nov 1, 3:45 pm, Riccardo Govoni ☢ <battleho...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry for the late answer.
> We recently rolled out a feature that lets you use some aspects of charts
> directly from Google Sites (seehttp://googledocs.blogspot.com/2011/09/visualize-your-data-with-chart...
thank you for the clear and unambiguous answer... it settles a
discussion I have had with a number of different folks while trying to
understand if and how the various Google elements (Docs - Sites -
Chart tools) could work together.
I had more or less come to the conclusion that what I was trying to
achieve was not possible (at least for the present)... but it's good
to get a clear answer.
As you suggest I have been working at putting something together that
can be hosted elsewhere... now all I have to do is get to grips with
Javascript coding!
Thanks again for your response.
Tony
On Nov 1, 3:45 pm, Riccardo Govoni ☢ <battleho...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry for the late answer.
> We recently rolled out a feature that lets you use some aspects of charts
> )
> but we don't offer yet direct support for Dashboards.
>
> To use dashboards you must be able to edit the html source of the page
> where you're inserting the dashboard into, something that Sites does not
> allow. So if you write an html page that contains a dashboard, you'd have
> to host it somewhere else.
>
> As a workaround, you could then later surface the dashboard inside a Google
> Site using a gadget that lets you embed external content in a site, like
> one of the many iframe gadgets available (menu "Insert > More Gadgets" when
> you are editing a Site page).
>
> -- R.
>
> but we don't offer yet direct support for Dashboards.
>
> To use dashboards you must be able to edit the html source of the page
> where you're inserting the dashboard into, something that Sites does not
> allow. So if you write an html page that contains a dashboard, you'd have
> to host it somewhere else.
>
> As a workaround, you could then later surface the dashboard inside a Google
> Site using a gadget that lets you embed external content in a site, like
> one of the many iframe gadgets available (menu "Insert > More Gadgets" when
> you are editing a Site page).
>
> -- R.
>
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