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New option to turn off shiny graphics

Our new graphics in Scoreboard have been incredibly well received.  Some of our defense clients, however, prefer a flatter and more reserved look.  For them we’re introducing a configuration option in Scoreboard 2.2 to turn off shiny graphics.  The screenshots below show different graphs with the option turned on and off.
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5 Responses to “New option to turn off shiny graphics”

  1. Arturo Martinez Says:
    June 8th, 2010 at 8:29 am

    I love the new look for WOBs and I prefer shiny graphics for pies and bar charts. However, for stacked bar charts the image is better without the shiny option. Where do I turn on/off the shiny graphics. Is this a feature configurable at the application level (for all type of WOBs, or it may be possible to turn off just some kind of WOBs – in my case, the stacked bar charts). Great job guys

  2. Scott Says:
    June 10th, 2010 at 12:34 pm

    This is a new piece of functionality coming out in version 2.2 coming to beta soon!

  3. Arturo Martinez Says:
    June 16th, 2010 at 5:28 pm

    Thanks Scott.

  4. Lantis Says:
    July 22nd, 2010 at 6:41 am

    I am truly amazed at the functionally of the wobs. can you tel me more about them, and what is it? a control. or is there any information i can read about them. awesome work guys

  5. Scott Says:
    September 2nd, 2010 at 2:04 am

    Short answer:

    We created the term WOBs. It stands for “Windowed Objects.” WOBs are the specialized things you add to your dashboards in our software.

    Long answer:

    To explain WOBs it helps to know how our dashboards works as well as everyone else’s. The way you create dashboards with most dashboard software on the market is to add dashboard objects (charts, maps, gauges) to a grid. We’re a little different. Instead of a grid-based layout, we use a freeform canvas like PowerPoint. This allows you to create dashboards that look pretty fantastic.

    Another difference between us and most other dashboard software is that others use Flash to draw the dashboards. Flash is a browser plugin that doesn’t work for many devices like mobile phones, screen readers for blind people, and devices like the iPad. Our dashboards are created using 100% open standard web technologies like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

    Finally, and most importantly, our dashboards can contain so much more than just graphs and gauges. You can also add things from all over our software like reports, comment dialogs, and gantt charts. You can see a list of all metrics that are currently red and drill down for more info. You can reply to a comment right on the dashboard. They’re live and they’re interactive.

    So, WOBs are the complication of everything I’ve talked about. They’re interactive slices of our software, made from normal HTML, that can be dragged around and resized on our dashboard canvas.

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