What is DashBuilder ? Do you need to buildup online dashboard with tone of KPI for your clients or management team? If yes, you may use DashBuilder to do so, it is a part of JBoss Community, open source and the most important point is … simple to install and use. It is
You may follow the below steps: 1. Install JDK from Oracle (at least JDK 1.6), you can download from http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html 2. Adding Java to your classpath: a. Under “User variables for XXXX”, click on “New” button to create a new user variable b. Input “PATH” as variable name and C:\{your_java_installed_path}\jdk1.7.0_55\bin as your variable
By default, it is using Tomcat user to login. You can add new role and user under C:\{your_tomcat_installed_path}\conf\tomcat-users.xml <role rolename=”admin”/> <role rolename=”user”/> <user username=”root” password=”root” roles=”admin”/> <user username=”demo” password=”demo” roles=”user”/> For DashBuilder, it supports 2 different roles, normal user and admin user. Admin user is using to create/update your dashboards / reports. Normal
In order to connect to data source(s), you need to create a data connection to your DB(s). Before setting up the data connection, you need to install the JDBC driver to DashBuilder app. For example, if you are using MySQL as your data sources, you need to download the MySQL JDBC driver (mysql-connector-java-5.1.38.zip)
After data connection, you need to setup the data provider, which is the SQL statement to your data source. Before setting up the data provider, please remember: Don’t create a complicate SQL statement here. If you need to, better to use a database view. If your query returns too many rows of records, you
When creating a new data provider, it may return below error, if your query returns too many rows of record. You can either: 1. Limit the number of returning records by, e.g. SELECT * FROM sales order by creation_date desc limit 10000 => You may use this way, if your query just need
You can treat a new dashboard as a web page, it can be sub-dashboard as another dashboard. On the dashboard, you can add some new Panels including KPIs (charts or data tables). 1. Click on “Create new page” 2. Fill in the below values : 3. Then, an empty dashboard has been created. 4.
Panel is a reusable piece of UI components, such as KPI (charts or data table), Login-out menu, tree menu or simply HTML code. You can add some existing Panel(s) on your dashboard. Let’s see how to add “Login/Logout” and “Left Menu” panels: 1. Click on “Create a new panel in current page” 2.
On the new dashboard, you can add some existing KPI(s) or create new KPI(s). Let’s add some existing KPI(s) by: 1. Click on “Create a new panel in current page” 2. Select “Key Performance Indicator” => “Expenses demo” => drag “Expense evolution” => and drop to “CENTER_1” 3. Done, so simple, isn’t it? You know
Besides charting, you can also create data table(s) to show your raw data in table format like MS Excel with sorting and grouping features. Let’s see how to do so: 1. Click on “Create a new panel in current page” 2. Select “Key Performance Indicator” => drag “Create panel” => and drop to “CENTER_1”
