WebSphere Dashboard Framework v6.0.1

 

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1. WebSphere Dashboard Framework
2. Product overview
   • Architectural overview
   • Accessibility
   • PDF versions of this documentation

3. Installation
   • Software requirements
   • Install and configuring WebSphere Dashboard Framework
     • Run the installation program
     • Create a project after installation
     • Configure your environment after installation
     • Configure an embedded test server environment
     • Set up native language support

   • Upgrade plug-in files, projects, and portlets
     • Upgrade plug-in files after installation
     • Upgrade projects
     • Upgrade portlets to the Java Standard Portlet API

   • Remove IBM WebSphere Dashboard Framework

4. Get started
   • Learning from tutorials and samples
   • Create portlets: A high-level overview
     • Understand key concepts
     • Create a project and model
     • Add builders to a model
     • View builder code
     • Add profiling to personalize portlets
     • Deploying a portlet

   • Define requirements for an application
   • Create your first project
     • Choosing feature sets for a project
     • Create a project for the Alerts Scheduler

   • Deployment
     • Verify successful deployment of a project
     • Deployment tips
     • Troubleshooting unsuccessful deployments
     • Enable IBM Tivoli License Manager tracking
     • Deploying projects on a remote WebSphere server

   • Create data services
     • Benefits of using builders for Service-Oriented Architecture
     • Create a Service Provider model
     • Additional data services features

   • Developing the user interface for your application
     • Create a Service Consumer model
     • Choosing the appropriate design-pattern builder
       • Bullet Graph
       • Hierarchy Drilldown
       • Map
       • Record List and Detail
       • Status Page
       • Summary and Drilldown
       • View & Form
       • Web Charts - Enhanced

     • Customize the user interface and styles

   • Selecting builders for common tasks
     • Create services
     • Create the initial portlet user interface
     • Add dashboard-specific features
     • Work with tables, columns, and data layout
     • Work with variables and schemas
     • Controlling the validation, formatting, labels, and behavior of data fields
     • Set up actions and events
     • Add navigation and page actions
     • Controlling page elements
     • Integrating WebSphere Portal features
     • Share functionality or resources across models
     • Supporting translation and localized strings

   • Incorporating additional dashboard features
     • Alerting
       • Learning about alerts from tutorials and samples

     • Annotations
     • Filtering
       • Add filtering

   • Developing customizers that let users change their own portlets
   • Debugging tips
   • Best practices
   • Additional information

5. Set up dashboard features
   • Set up the sample application
   • Set up alerts
   • Set up annotations
   • Set up a calendar
   • Selecting a persistence manager
   • Set up a database for a dashboard application
     • Copying the sample application files to the application server
     • Set up a Cloudscape database
       • Use WebSphere Application Server 6
       • Use WebSphere Application Server 5

     • Set up a DB2 database
       • Create the database
       • Connecting to the database
       • Prepare the database for sample application data
       • Prepare the database for alert, annotation, and calendar data
       • Create a data source
         • Create a data source (WebSphere Application Server 6)
         • Create a data source (WebSphere Application Server 5.1)

       • Troubleshooting the connection

     • Set up an Oracle database
     • Set up a SQL Server database
     • Configure a database persistence manager

   • Overriding default project settings
     • General properties
     • Alerts properties
       • Log alerts errors during development
       • Storing alerts XML files in a project during development

     • Annotations properties

   • Additional configuration for alerts
     • Share a persistence manager between projects
       • Share an XML-file persistence manager
       • Share a database persistence manager

     • Set up automated alert notifications
       • Configure e-mail alert notifications
         • Customize e-mail notifications

       • Configure SMS alert notifications
         • Customize SMS notifications

     • Log alerts statistics

   • Configure pages to launch as portlets
     • Run scripts to set up sample application pages
       • AIX, Linux, and Solaris
       • Windows

   • Testing your configuration settings

6. Tutorials
   • Add the tutorials to a project
   • Introductory tutorial
     • The Service Provider model
     • The Service Consumer model

   • Filtering tutorial
     • Add a product selection form
     • Add filtering to the Service Provider model
     • Add filtering to the Service Consumer model

   • Alerts tutorial
     • Add alerting to the Service Provider model
     • Add alerting to the Service Consumer model
     • Add an alert definition

7. Sample application
   • Log on to the sample application
   • Explore builders in the sample application
   • Sample application: Home page
   • Sample application: Customers page
   • Sample application: Human Resources page
   • Sample application: Sales page

8. Work with alerts
   • Use the alerts module
     • Alerts terminology
     • Alerting portlets
     • Alerting responsibilities

   • Alerts engine architecture
     • Alert state caching

   • Alert definitions
     • Types of alert definitions
       • Script-based alert definitions
         • Data expiration
         • Logic
         • Display

       • Custom alert definitions
       • External alert definitions

     • Data selection
     • Parameters
     • Features of alert definitions
       • Automated notification
       • Alert escalation
       • User authorization
       • Related bookmark

     • Migrating XML-based alert definitions to a database persistence manager
       • Use the Import Definitions portlet

   • Alert evaluators
     • Developing alert evaluators
       • Common themes in evaluator development
       • Type-specific evaluator requirements
       • Understand alert instance content
         • Alert field semantics
         • Handling special alert fields
           • Set the Alert ID field
           • Set the Category ID Field
           • Set the Creation Date field
           • Set the Expiration Date Field
           • Set the Vfield

       • Create a simple class-based alert evaluator
         • Create the stub evaluator class
         • Create an unpopulated alert instance and returning it in the list
         • Populating required fields in the alert instance
         • Add business logic to an alert evaluator
         • Set localized text
         • Create the alert definition
         • Testing the new alert definition and evaluator

       • Create a model-based evaluator
         • Examine the LJO's source file
         • Create the evaluator model
         • Examine the XML of the sample alert model-based evaluator

   • Learning about alerts from tutorials and samples
     • Work with the sample Sales Orders portlet
       • Use the sample Sales Orders portlet
       • Examine the Sales Orders portlet model
         • View the Sales Order status indicators

       • Examine the Sales Order service provider model
       • View the example alert definitions
         • Understand the Sales Orders alert definitions
         • Edit the example script-based alert definition

   • Work with the My Alerts portlet
     • Use the My Alerts portlet

   • Work with the Manage Alerts portlet
     • Create or editing an alert definition
       • Create or editing an alert definition for annotations

   • User contexts
     • Renaming and deleting user contexts
       • Managing user contexts with the XML-file persistence manager
       • Managing user contexts with the database persistence manager

   • Add alerts to a portlet
     • Prepare to add alerts to a portlet
       • Create data service providers
       • Define alert evaluation properties
       • Implement the alert evaluator
       • Enable the Alert definition

     • Create a data portlet
       • Design guidelines for data portlets
       • Add an Alert Data builder to the Service Provider model
       • Add a Status Indicator builder to the data portlet model

     • Create a My Alerts portlet

   • Alerts directories

9. Work with collaborative features
   • Work with annotations
     • Annotations architecture
     • Add annotations to a model
     • Work with the Annotation Administration portlet

   • Work with the Team Calendar
     • Use the Team Calendar
     • Developing a team calendar

10. Dashboard builder catalog
    • Alert Customizer builder
      • Use the Alert Customizer builder
      • Specify inputs for the builder
      • Objects created by the builder

    • Alert Data builder
      • Identifying data to be used by an alert
      • Specify inputs for the builder

    • Annotation builder
      • Use the Annotation builder
      • Specify inputs for the builder
      • Objects created by the builder

    • Bullet Graph builder
      • Use the Bullet Graph builder
      • Specify inputs for the builder
      • Objects created by the builder

    • Contextual Information builder
      • Use the Contextual Information builder
      • Specify inputs for the builder
      • Objects created by the builder

    • Excel Import - Enhanced builder
      • Specify inputs for the builder
      • Objects created by the builder

    • Hierarchy Drilldown builder
      • Use the Hierarchy Drilldown builder
      • Specify inputs for the builder
      • Objects created by the builder

    • ID Gatherer builder
      • Use the ID Gatherer builder
        • Presenting a blank splash page with the ID Gatherer builder
        • Presenting an input page to gather an ID
        • Gathering an ID using a method

      • Specify inputs for the builder
      • Objects created by the builder

    • Map builder
      • Specify inputs for the builder
      • Objects created by the builder

    • ODS Export builder
      • Specify inputs for the builder
      • Objects created by the builder

    • Query Filter builder
      • Use the Query Filter builder
      • Specify inputs for the builder
      • Objects created by the builder

    • Query Filter Form builder
      • Specify inputs for the builder
      • Objects created by the builder

    • Query Filter Observer builder
      • Specify inputs for the builder
      • Objects created by the builder

    • Record List and Detail builder
      • Specify inputs for the builder
      • Objects created by the builder

    • Snapshot Report builder
      • Specify inputs for the builder
      • Objects created by the builder

    • Status Indicator builder
      • Use the Status Indicator builder
      • Specify inputs for the builder
      • Objects created by the builder

    • Status Indicator Legend builder
      • Specify inputs for the builder

    • Status Page builder
      • Specify inputs for the builder
      • Objects created by the builder

    • Summary and Drilldown builder
      • Specify inputs for the builder
      • Objects created by the builder

    • Summary Row builder
      • Use the Summary Row builder
      • Specify inputs for the builder
      • Objects created by the builder

    • Table Customizer builder
      • Create a portlet that can edit table-related data
      • Specify inputs for the builder

    • Web Charts - Enhanced builder
      • Specify inputs for the builder
      • Objects created by the builder