Dashboard XML files

The Dashboard XML file structure contains the data necessary to render a dashboard diagram. Part of the contents of the firstDashboard.idbd file you created between Creating a dashboard and Saving a dashboard is shown in the following figure.

Example   The XML structure of a dashboard.idbd file

 

<Dashboard version="BC1">

  <symbols>

    <symbol id="Dial_1">

      <palette CSSResourceName="ilog/views/palettes/shared/symbols/Dial.css"

 className="Symbol" fullID="Symbols.Controls.Dial"

 paletteJarURL="file:/'C:/Program Files/JViews Maps 2017/jviews-diagrammer/lib/palettes/jviews-palette-shared-symbols-9.0.jar" palettePackage="ilog/views/palettes/shared/" paletteResourceName="ilog/views/palettes/shared/palette.xml"/>

 <geometry height="190.0" width="189.99998" x="162.57141" y="128.67432"/>

 <parameters>

   <parameter id="value" mapping="value" type="double">

     <value>0.0</value>

   </parameter>

   ...

   <parameter id="toolTipText" type="string"/>

   <parameter id="popupMenuName" type="string"/>

   <parameter id="sensitive" type="boolean">

     <value>true</value>

   </parameter>

 </parameters>

    </symbol>

  </symbols>

  <links/>

  <background>

    #ILOG Views Java 1.0

    #Reader : ilog.views.io.IlvGrapherReader

    ilog.views.IlvGrapher {

      Layers [

        ilog.views.IlvManagerLayer {

          index 0 visible true selectable true

          elements [ DEF obj_0 ilog.views.graphic.IlvGeneralPath {

            path "M51.0 23.0L281.0 23.0L281.0 251.5L51.0 251.5L51.0 23.0z"

            windingRule "nonzero"

            strokeOn true

            strokeColor 255 0 0

            fillOn false

            fillColor 255 0 51

           }]

      }, ilog.views.IlvManagerLayer {

      index 1

      visible true

      selectable true

      elements [

       ]

      },

 ...

      }]}

</background>

</Dashboard>

A dashboard diagram file contains the following information:

• References to XML and CSS data used by the symbols included in the dashboard diagram. For each symbol, a .idbd file contains the following data:

  • The position of each symbol in the dashboard diagram.

  • Parameter data for each symbol in the dashboard diagram.

• The position and style of the background objects.