module ProcessWire Dashboard

[d'Hinnisdaël]

@TomPich Nothing built in, so far. Philosophically, I've seen the dashboard as a jumping-off point for users to get oriented, then go off somewhere else in the admin to do more serious work. My suggestion would be configuring a separate admin Lister page with filters, or building a custom Process module if you're feeling adventurous.

That said, there are ways of doing this manually:

Option 1: render a select input using a `template` type panel, with some JS to auto-submit the form on change. In your php file defining the available dashboard panels, you can then use that input parameter to pre-filter the results. This only works smoothly with selects where a full page reload is acceptable UX, so text inputs would require a different solution.

Option 2: create multiple panel tabs, one tab for each available filter option. Still, not very useful for text inputs.

[TomPich]

@d'Hinnisdaël Thank you.

I’ll explore your suggestions. I’m not sure what you mean by "configuring a separate admin Lister page with filters". But it sounds like being quite straight forward.

For now, I’ve been building a custom panel following your documentation. Seems a lot of work. I’m getting somewhere, but I’d rather respect the spirit of your module and and choose a more clever solution to achieve my goal.

[d'Hinnisdaël]

@TomPich The sprit of the module would be to keep it simple, and create the more complex pieces as separate admin pages. The canonical solution would be the ListerPro module, but this can be done without commercial modules using just the built-in Lister process module that is the basis for ListerPro.

[alexm]

On 2/16/2022 at 1:45 AM, adrian said:

Hi @d'Hinnisdaël - I wonder if you'd be willing to support loading a tab directly from the hash in the URL please?

Thanks for considering.

@adrian did you work out if this was possible? Was wanting to do the same thing. Cheers!

[TomPich]

Hi @d'Hinnisdaël,
Just wanted to say (again) how awesomissimo is your module. It’s a real asset in the scale when trying to convince a client to switch from WP to PW.
They often fear to be lost with a new admin interface. But thanks to Dashboard, I can demonstrate how easier it is. 😊