Live Demo

If you want to try The Dashboard in a live environment, feel free to drop us a short email. We operate a SharePoint instance with the latest Dashboard version and will happily provide you with access to it.

Prepared Packages

If you want to use The Dashboard on your own SharePoint, you can either build it from source (see below) or use the following pre-packaged ZIP file:

• The Dashboard (latest development version)

To get The Dashboard running on your SharePoint site, you need to perform the following steps:

• Download and extract the above ZIP file

• Open the index.aspx file in the ZIP file and change the URLs that need to point to your SharePoint site:

<script type="text/javascript">
    // SET THESE URLS TO POINT TO YOUR SHAREPOINT INSTANCE
    window.dashboardSharePointBaseUrl = '<GIVE THE FULL URL OF YOUR SHAREPOINT HERE WITH TRAILING SLASH>';
    window.dashboardSharePointApiBaseUrl = window.dashboardSharePointBaseUrl + '_api/';
</script>

• Copy all the files in the ZIP file into a document library on your SharePoint site.

• Access the index.aspx file in the library on your SharePoint server. It should display The Dashboard welcome page.

• If you have sufficient privileges on the SharePoint site to add new lists and libraries to the site (which you need to have to set-up Dashboard initially), you can use the interface to navigate to “Administration” (top right) and then follow the link to “Load loadfiles into SharePoint database”.

• There you can upload files that describe the initial database layout. To initialise the database, you should add the following loadfile URLs and then run the import by ticking the warning box and clicking “Load Loadfile”:
  • assets/loadfiles/00001-initialListsAndLibraries.js - This is always required and initialises the database.
  • assets/loadfiles/80001-demoData.js - This is optional and is only required if you want to load the database with a demo company and demo content for you to explore “The Dashboard”. If you want to use The Dashboard for your own company in production, you would not want this.
• Afterwards you should be all set-up and you can access the various features of “The Dashboard”.

If something doesn’t work, please get in touch (we are painfully aware that the documentation is severely lacking at the moment, so we are here to help).

Source Code

If you want to customize or enhance The Dashboard or just want to better understand its internals, feel free to check out its source code on Gitlab.