Introduction
Our programs are really good at collecting data, but
making sense of all that data and turning it into useful information can
be a challenge. Reports are good and graphs are great but real-time
information collected into one place is better.
iDash allows you to add a dashboard to your program.
The goal of a dashboard is to display all the real-time information to
your user that they need to make decisions in a single window. They need
to be able to organize this data, and view it in a way that makes sense to
them.
Because a dashboard is highly customizable it's no good just creating a
window, putting some graphs on it, and calling it done. Rather the
dashboard becomes a container, containing many individual Widgets,
and the user has complete control over which widgets are displayed, their
size and their order.
iDash is designed to be used in Clarion 8 or later and supports both
Legacy and ABC template sets.
iDash contains iWidget
A widget is simply a way of displaying data, which can be included on a
dashboard. There are many kinds of widgets including your own custom
widgets, a Simple Text Widget (included with iWidget) and widget support
built into other tools.
iWidget provides the framework for creating your own widgets, or for using
widgets provided by other tools. It is an extensible framework which
allows other 3rd party developers to add widget support to their products.
Features
iDash
- Adds one or more dash boards to your program.
- Can host any number of widgets on a sheet with any number of tabs
- Allows for a Summary tab so your user can select the most important
widgets
- Allows the user to turn widgets on and off
- Allows widgets to be resized by the user
- Allows the user to click on a widget to drill-down to a procedure
containing the underlying data.
- Allows for widgets to be re-ordered by the user using drag-and-drop
iWidget
- Provides a Widget procedure type
- Provides some sample widgets to get you started
- Allows you to easily create your own widgets
- Provides a framework for other 3rd party tools so they can expose
themselves as widgets as well.
Screen Shots
Webinar
iDash was shown for the first time on the ClarionLive
Weekly Webinar, #
292 on Friday 19 December 2014. The
webinar was recorded and you can download it from
here.
Gauges were introduced with Draw version 4, the use of gauges and how that
works in iDash was introduced in webinar #
357,
which can be downloaded
here.
Requirements & Recommendations
iDash does not have any Required products. In other
words you can use iDash with the simple widgets provided in your
application with no other accessories.
However other accessories may support iDash and may allow you to create
widgets based on those accessories. Some other accessories which include
widget support are;
NOTE: If you already have Draw then it is
recommended you upgrade to Version 4.00 or later before installing iDash.
The process of extending a product to include widget support is
documented.
Compatible With
| Clarion 8 |
Yes |
| Clarion 9 / 9.1 |
Yes |
| Clarion 10 |
Yes |
| Clarion 11/ 11.1 |
Yes |
| Clarion Templates |
Yes |
| ABC Templates |
Yes |
| AnyScreen |
Yes |
| Local Mode |
Yes |
| DLL Mode |
Yes |
| Multi DLL |
Yes |
Documentation & Support
Documentation for the product is available
here.
Go
here for further support.
Cost
The price of iDash is $399. It is available for
purchase from
ClarionShop.
For other payment options please contact us
here
Refund Policy
CapeSoft believes that if you aren't satisfied with
our products, we would like them back - and we will refund you the money.
This allows you to purchase our products with confidence. You can read our
full refund policy
here.
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