Getting there

[Chris Heazell]

Hi Charlie & Richard etc,

I'm making pretty good headway. I'll probably be able to present
something to our snr. mgmt team shortly. In order for you guys to see
my tinkering I've created a not quite identical clone of the one
running internally. It isn't done but it has come along way. I've
replaced the iFXelements with straight CSS dropline menus and I'm now
trying to spiff things up a bit. I'm working on charts (I've figured I
can do a bit of an end around to get fusion charts embeded within a
dashboard-nv. Who do you use for your flash based charts?), I'm also
getting some more icons sorted out but you can at least take a peak
for the time being until we decide to procede with this at...

http://www.springfieldroad.ca/dashboard/

On this site there are a couple of things plaguing me. One is when I'm
logged in I get many pages appear a blank pages, the entire browser is
blank and I can't see or edit nodes. I've compared permissions etc and
it seems set correctly but for whatever reason I can't. I can see and
edit images and I can admin the site for the most part, other than
trying to edit a dashboard type. This doesn't behave this way on our
internal site though.

Thanks for the template tip Charlie, I've now got the historical tab
populated but I can't workout why it is pulling all the top level
terms rather than the ones under historical. This does behave the same
on both sites so any pointers as to why?

Anyway any input is appreciated,

Chris

[Charles Moad]

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Chris Heazell <chea...@glenbow.org> wrote:

Hi Charlie & Richard etc,

I'm making pretty good headway. I'll probably be able to present
something to our snr. mgmt team shortly. In order for you guys to see
my tinkering I've created a not quite identical clone of the one
running internally. It isn't done but it has come along way. I've
replaced the iFXelements with straight CSS dropline menus and I'm now
trying to spiff things up a bit. I'm working on charts (I've figured I
can do a bit of an end around to get fusion charts embeded within a
dashboard-nv. Who do you use for your flash based charts?), I'm also
getting some more icons sorted out but you can at least take a peak
for the time being until we decide to procede with this at...

We use this for charting:

http://www.maani.us/xml_charts/

This tool pre-dates google charts and we can't say it is easy to use at all.

 

http://www.springfieldroad.ca/dashboard/

This is looking great.  Cool to see a new spin on the design.

 

On this site there are a couple of things plaguing me. One is when I'm
logged in I get many pages appear a blank pages, the entire browser is
blank and I can't see or edit nodes. I've compared permissions etc and
it seems set correctly but for whatever reason I can't. I can see and
edit images and I can admin the site for the most part, other than
trying to edit a dashboard type. This doesn't behave this way on our
internal site though.

Check your php error logs.  Drupal has a famed "white screen of death". This typically means a php error occurred and it just quit.  You can enable on screen error logging as well.  Maybe differing php versions explains why it works on one site and not another.

 

Thanks for the template tip Charlie, I've now got the historical tab
populated but I can't workout why it is pulling all the top level
terms rather than the ones under historical. This does behave the same
on both sites so any pointers as to why?

Make sure you are passing in the parent term id into the "taxonomy_get_children" function.

http://code.google.com/p/museum-dashboard/source/browse/trunk/dashboard/themes/dashboard_theme/template.php#79

If you are passing in a parent id of zero, you will get the top level terms.

 

Anyway any input is appreciated,

Chris

Keep up the good work!

- Charlie 

[Ed Bachta]

> We use this for charting:http://www.maani.us/xml_charts/
> This tool pre-dates google charts and we can't say it is easy to use at all.

Indeed. We're planning to develop any future charts using google
charts or javascript-based visualization packages (combined with back-
end data processing in PHP).