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[macagua]

Hi @cornernote

First of all thanks for the extension yii2-dashboard, seems very potential for a development I'm doing with Yii2 framework.

I have read the yii2-dashboard extension documentation, I used the yii2-dashboard demonstration website before installing it locally on my Yii2 basic project template.

I have managed to enable settings yii2-dashboard and via yii2 migrations recreate the structure of your website demonstration following screenshots that have published.

Result of these practices have published this Yii2 project here: https://github.com/macagua/my_yii2dashboard_demo

Yii2 project have the following characteristics:

• Yii2 basic template.
• The extension yii2-dashboard enabled via yii2 module configuration.
• Dashboard structures enabled via yii2 migrations (INSERT SQL).
• Enabled to Layout and Panel called Example following the yii2-dashboard demonstration/documentation website.

Until now it works perfectly the extension of yii2-dashboard, And in my_yii2dashboard_demo repository currently me in this screenshot:

Then in the extension documentation it does not indicate how to achieve this view:

As my object play configurations and source code of the demonstration site, to understand the operation of this extension:

As I understand the demonstration site you are consulted the workflow of a "Job" that contains three status / transitions "requested", "scheduled" and "collected".

So here I have my questions for you:

• You use the extension yii2-workflow?
• As I generate the representation "Dashboard View" with the panel "Collection Scheduled"? I explain better, 'jobStatus' => 'JobWorkflow / scheduled' and 'JobType' => 'collect' are Controller actions? I guess require some kind of view?

Please, at this point it would be great to help me to understand the operation of the extension, as I do not get some yii2 source code in reference to achieve the proper functioning of the panels of the dashboard extension.

Besides that I can help you make an initial version of a tutorial for yii2-dashboard.

Thanks

[cornernote]

Hi @macagua,

Thanks for your feedback. I will try to answer your questions below, but please let me know if I miss anything.

Then in the extension documentation it does not indicate how to achieve this view:

You need to write your own panel view file, as described here (see Panel View):
https://cornernote.github.io/yii2-dashboard/docs/panels/

You use the extension yii2-workflow?

Yes, but it's not required. It just happened to be used for the example.

As I generate the representation "Dashboard View" with the panel "Collection Scheduled"? I explain better, 'jobStatus' => 'JobWorkflow / scheduled' and 'JobType' => 'collect' are Controller actions? I guess require some kind of view?

Yes, but these are just for the screenshot/demo, you don't need these in your application (if you do, it's not usage of dashboard, it's usage of workflow).

[macagua]

Hi @cornernote

For the panel "Collection Scheduled" example do you using the GridView::widget for create the grid table?

[cornernote]

@macagua, yep I used GridView::widget. You can however render anything you want in the panel's view.