The Dashboard

This is a magic dashboard for Umbraco 7,8 and 9, it's actually "The Dashboard". It will show editors a summary of the latest activites on the website combined with each editors recent activities and other useful information.

Installation in Umbraco CMS

There is a built version of the package here: https://our.umbraco.org/projects/backoffice-extensions/the-dashboard/ just download it and install it in the developers-section.

Command Line

dotnet add package Our.Umbraco.TheDashboard

Or NuGet

Install-Package Our.Umbraco.TheDashboard

Dashboard Content

Recent Activities

Shows a list of all recent activities in the CMS but both the current user and other users. Only shows content that the users have access to.

Your recent activity

Shows a list of recent nodes that the current user have interacted with.

Pending content

Shows content that is published but have an unscheduled change, this mostly happens when editors press the "Save"-button or view a page in "Preview mode" without publishing the changes afterwards and when this icon is shown:

Extension Points

There's something called "Counters" listed to the left in the Dashboard. These are actually small classes that implements the IDashboardCounter-interface from the package.

These classes are instantiated using Umbraco's CollectionBuilders (same as for ie ContentFinders) so you can inject any dependency you need in the constructor.

Here's an example:

public class OrdersDashboardCounter : IDashboardCounter
{
    private readonly ILocalizedTextService _localizedTextService;

    public OrdersDashboardCounter(ILocalizedTextService localizedTextService)
    {
        _localizedTextService = localizedTextService;
    }

    public DashboardCounterModel GetModel(IScope scope)
    {
        var sql = @"SELECT count(id) FROM customOrders";

        var count = scope.Database.ExecuteScalar<int>(sql);
        return new DashboardCounterModel()
        {
            Text = _localizedTextService.Localize("custom/totalOrders"),
            Count = count,
            ClickUrl = "/umbraco#/orders",
            Style = DashboardCounterModel.CounterStyles.Action
        };
    }
}

And then you need to create a Composer that adds you’re new Counter.

[ComposeAfter(typeof(TheDashboardComposer))]
public class OrdersCounterComposer : IComposer
{
  public void Compose(IUmbracoBuilder builder)
  {
	// First, remove the member-counters as we don't need them
	builder.TheDashboardCounters().Remove<MembersTotalDashboardCounter>();
	builder.TheDashboardCounters().Remove<MembersNewLastWeekDashboardCounter>();

	// Add my custom counter
	builder.TheDashboardCounters().Append<OrdersDashboardCounter>();
  }
}

Contributions

Are more then welcome but please, before you put a lot of work into it raise and issue and make sure that we're on the same track.

Branches

V1 = Umbraco 7 - 7.7.0
V2 = Umbraco 7.7.0+
V8 = Umbraco 8
V9 = Umbraco 9
V10 = Umbraco 10

Roadmap

The main idea with the package is to provide a super simple dashboard for the content section, we're extremely cautious with adding features as we want to keep the code base super-easy.

In the v8 version of the package the "Developer Dashboard" was remove, there's plenty of other packages, ie "Diplo GodMode" https://our.umbraco.com/packages/developer-tools/diplo-god-mode/ that solves this problem. There is no plans to add it back.

Build

To build a Release-version of the package,

Make sure to update verison in the csproj-file
Run dotnet pack --configuration Release inside the Our.Umbraco.TheDashboard-folder to create packages
Artifacts created in /Package/-folder

This package was created by Enkel Media, http://www.enkelmedia.se

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