Widget Dashboards with Wizard's Toolkit - Full Tutorial

Описание: Widgets play a crucial role in providing real-time visual representations of essential company data, tailored to the unique needs of different staff roles and departments. With the Wizard's Toolkit, creating and managing these widgets is a breeze, allowing for seamless customization and efficient problem resolution.

In this video, we'll explore the straightforward process of creating and assigning widgets, as well as setting up multiple Widget Dashboards based on staff roles and security levels. Additionally, we'll delve into the functionality of the Back Office Management, Widget Creation, Data Review, and Demos, all of which come standard in Wizard's Toolkit, a low-code development library for PHP and SQL.

Chapter Headers
00:00 Intro and Preview
01:25 Widget Creation in back office website
04:06 Widgets with Modal Window Links - saving and refreshing
06:35 Continuation of Widget Creation description and examples discussing SQL
07:16 Save and Copy feature
07:47 Chart Widgets
09:50 Widget Groups using 3 SQL tables
13:41 Personal Widget Dashboards
14:32 Color Gradients for Widget Counters - set up in CSS and SQL
18:48 How to code multiple Widget Dashboards (PHP, JS and data)
22:18 Personal Widgets - code deep dive in SQL and PHP
25:37 makeWidget PHP function
26:34 Mobile Phone widgets

Widgets use SQL and are presented as counters, charts or lists. Clicking on a Widget can take a person directly to the necessary page to review or resolve the associated problem. Each individual is able to customize their widget dashboard. This makes navigation and problem resolution easier and more tailored to individual needs.

This video also shows how to add code to provide switching between Widget Dashboards, and even add new color options for widget counters.

Back Office Management
Here is where you can set up Groupings of Widgets. These can be based on Department (aka Staff Role), by Security Level, or any determination you like.

You can decide if the Widget Grouping should be used as a default set for users. If you do so, then the first time a user logs in to the website it will automatically copy that Widget Group to their personal dashboard. Then they will be able to edit that dashboard, rearrange the widgets, add more pre-designed widgets, and delete unnecessary widgets. Note, they will not be able to see or add widgets that are above their security level. Of course you can remove the ability for staff to modify their dashboards if you so desire. That's the beauty of low-code development compared to no-code. You have full access to the code and can enhance or change it in any way you like.

Widget come in 4 types:
Chart type
List type
Counter
Link

The Chart Widgets can be any of these types:
Line
Area
Bar
Pie

Initial SQL table design, SQL triggers, data for widgets, and data look-ups are all included. All source code is available for easy modification.

Summary
This functionality comes standard in Wizard's Toolkit, the low-code development library for PHP and SQL. If you would like to have Widget Dashboards as an AdHoc feature added to your pre-existing website, let us know in the comments below.

We have a live demo on the web so you can see how fast and responsive Wizard's Toolkit is and how the widgets look good on computers, tablets and phones.

https://wizardstoolkit.com/wtk.php