Running the Dashboard Editor

Rogue Wave® JViews Dashboard Editor lets you edit and display dashboard diagrams made from JViews symbols.

You can run the Dashboard Editor under the Windows® or UNIX® operating systems. The startup conditions are the same in both cases.

To run the Dashboard Editor under Windows:

In the Start menu, click All Programs > Rogue Wave > Rogue Wave JViews Diagrammer9.0 > Dashboard Editor.

Rogue Wave is the default program group and might be different if you have installed JViews Diagrammer into a different program group.

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1. Go to the directory <installdir>/jviews-diagrammer/samples/dashboard/dashboardeditor.

2. Double-click run.bat .

To run the Dashboard Editor under UNIX:

1. Go to the directory <installdir>/jviews-diagrammer/samples/dashboard/dashboardeditor.

Make sure that your PATH environment variable is set correctly to find this directory.

2. Enter run.sh .

The Dashboard Editor opens.

The Dashboard Editor

The Dashboard Editor window includes the following panes:

Overview: displays the part of the dashboard visible in the drawing window.

Tree: displays the list of the symbols contained in the dashboard diagram.

Property Sheet: displays the parameters attached to the symbol or the properties of the background object currently selected.

Palette: displays the symbol palettes open in Dashboard Editor.

Editor: a graphical component used for creating and editing dashboard diagrams.