Dashboard customization about manageiq.org HOT 6 CLOSED

Here's a link to what we have for CFME. https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/CloudForms/3.0/html/Management_Engine_5.2_Insight_Guide/chap-Cloud_Intelligence.html#sect-Dashboard

Is this what you are looking for? If so, I could probably quickly make this in markdown..unless you have a tool for that.

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FWIW: A really quick way to convert web pages on the fly to Markdown is to do:

export DOC_URL="https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/CloudForms/3.0/html/Management_Engine_5.2_Insight_Guide/chap-Cloud_Intelligence.html#sect-Dashboard"
curl $DOC_URL | pandoc -f html -t markdown_github > output.md

(You can, of course, just put the URL after curl instead of using variables. It's just split into two lines here using a variable to show the real command, without the URL getting in the way.)

This shell command relies on pandoc and curl being installed. curl is installed on most systems by default, but pandoc (which is a Swiss Army knife of document conversion) probably is not installed. It can be obtained via package management yum install -y pandoc or downloaded from http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/

Apparently, there's a way to build an all-in-one binary too (just in case you're on CSB and can't install things, that would be a workaround).

...But it's much better to work from the original sources.

This is an export with numbered PNGs (instead of ones with proper filenames) and the section is split between multiple pages. And then there are parts of the web page we don't care about (header and footer, and probably the "report a bug" links).

It could be scrubbed and edited, but it's probably best to wait for the DocBook formatted documentation and work from that.

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BTW: If a URL is just http (instead of HTTPS), then pandoc itself can handle the URL. It can also output to a file with the -o flag.

Example:

pandoc -f html -t markdown_github http://manageiq.org/ -o output.md

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I think modifying the dashboard is probably not in the first 5 things people will do with this. Having this in a "Customizing your ManageIQ experience" or in a larger doc like the one Marianne pointed to, works for me.

I think what I'd like to see post launch (perhaps in blogs from our SAs?) is some "dashboard profiles" for different types of users. Not sure exactly how that would work, but instead of documenting adding & removing new widgets (which is what you pointed to), we could perhaps suggest certain widget bundles which together tell a story for a specific type of user. No idea what they might be.

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With the upcoming redesign of the website, this request seems not be relevant at this time,..can you close this issue @garrett

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Closing since the new website is now live. If you believe this to be in error, please reopen this issue.

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