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johnwoodlock resolved MIFOSBI-230.
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Resolution: Fixed
Story Points: 0.5
The attached files show what one of our dashboards (being developed) looks like
in mifos. The 2nd file shows the extra login required first time because we
don't have single signon implemented yet.
In this case, I altered the mifos home page by removing the search form and
inserting an iframe which links to the url
<iframe
src="https://sandbox-reporting.mifos.org/pentaho/content/pentaho-cdf/RenderXCDF?solution=Dashboards&path=%2F&action=PradiptaGKBurndown.xcdf&template=mantle";
width="100%" height="100%">
<p>Your browser does not support iframes.</p>
</iframe>
Standard stuff and easy peasy. The main thing is that each pentaho 'asset'
(report, dashboard...) can be got to by url ... the variable part being the URI
(which could be put in some config) and you can pass additional parameters
using the standard 'parm=parmvalue' way.
So this is a very simple webby way of embedding pentaho. I think this works
for anything e.g. if you want to run a report as part of a 'flow' then you can
always either use something like outputting it into a new tab/window or an
iframe/div on the same page with jquery/ajax. There may be other uses cases
that demand a more programmatic approach for integration but I can't think of
any right now...
http://wiki.pentaho.com/display/PRESALESPORTAL/Using+Pentaho+with+other+software+stacks
mentions high level integration ways available but seems to me to be
suggesting url level (I might be reading it with blinkers on though).
Once I got over how cute this looked... I thought... well its not that much
better (if at all) than having a completely separate browser tab (not mifos
tab) named 'Mifos Dashboards' and having no direct integration with Mifos app
at all (okay you might have a menu link to kick off the browser tab but that's
just convenience... you could have had a 'favourite' just as easily). Of
course you'd decorate the dashboards to have a mifos feel.
I did think for a moment that single signon isn't worth the price (I don't mind
logging in twice) but at least it does cut down on (and centralise) the
username/password/role administration which would get unwieldy without it.
Some Notes:
Some Mifos pages (the old struts sort), at least this home page, have a strange
limit of 500 on the height. Thats why you see empty space and a scroll bar was
needed in the iframe. Could have changed this but wasn't important enough.
The data returned from pentaho URLs does tend to be quite a bit heavier than
ordinary mifos pages (not surprisingly as they have dynamical charts etc and
load things like jquery)... but firebug shows they can do quite a few requests
and other such stuff so maybe that's can be made better. I don't notice it
much but when my internet was way slow is was frustrating (ordinary mifos page
bad, pentaho frustrating).
> Spike: Display a simple dashboard on Mifos home page
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>
> Key: MIFOSBI-230
> URL: http://mifosforge.jira.com/browse/MIFOSBI-230
> Project: mifos business intelligence
> Issue Type: Story
> Reporter: pradipta kundu
> Assignee: johnwoodlock
> Priority: Major
> Fix For: Mifos BI 1.2
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> Attachments: mifosdashboard.jpg, mifospentahologon.jpg
>
>
> As a mifos user, I should be able to see a simple dashboard on the Mifos
> homepage
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