Idea: user defined forms submissions about silverstripe-dashboard

[unclecheese]

It's a great idea, but rolling it into the core gives me pause because it ties it up with another module. It's super easy to create your own dashboard panels, though. Have you looked at the documentation/screencasts?

[jedateach]

Yes, it's not core. I just thought I'd throw the idea out there. I'll build it if I need to. Is there a better place to list ideas?

[unclecheese]

Actually, I think there's a PR for a blog entry panel, too, so maybe it does make sense to work with popular thirdparty stuff.

In an ideal world, these modules would provide their own dashboard panels, though. That was always the dream. :-)

[jedateach]

Sounds similar to widgets. The blog module forces you to include the widgets module.
Applying that to dashboard, we get the situation where you must include the dashboard if a module has panels.
It would be nice if SS let you add these things to modules, but the manifest doesn't include them if the dashboard/widgets module doesn't exist. Might be a topic for the dev list.

[unclecheese]

Yeah, there's an ugly hack for that.

<?php

if(class_exists("BlogEntry")) {
       class BlogDashboardPanel extends DashboardPanel {


       }
}

[jedateach]

ah, nice / ugly :)

[unclecheese]

I'll bring this to the dev list. Maybe you can add your thoughts there.

[dospuntocero]

probably is not exactly the same but i did a module that does something like that, its called customer questions