Widget Management

Almost all data-driven websites want a dashboard where staff can see critical analytics at a glance. Often different departments will need different dashboards. Plus not all staff will want or need to see the same information.

This is an ideal opportunity for a data-driven widget manager. Wizard's Toolkit now allows creating SQL-driven widgets in the back office. These can show lists or charts. The charts can be pie, bar, line or area charts. Each widget is assigned a security level and whether clicking on it should direct to a page within the website or not. Plus you can choose whether that goes to a new page or just opens a modal window and displays a page there.

On the main website staff can modify their widget dashboard. They can add or remove widgets and they can re-organize their widgets to show the most important at the top.

In the back office common sets of widgets can be grouped together. That way your dashboard can have links to different Widget Groups. For example a "Finances" widget set, a "Customer Onboarding" widget set, etc.

For one client I have made it so at the top of their dashboard they have 3 different widget sets they can call up, plus each staff person has their own personal widget-dashboard. They are not allowed to alter the preset widget sets but are allowed to do anything with their own. Of course they can only see the widgets within their security level or lower. This way low-level staff do not get to see upper management widgets.

I need to make a video showing this in action but currently swamped with work. One of my clients has been granted the Google Startup package and we're meeting today to discuss moving our hosting and database to their cloud hosting services. I'm thrilled because the client has told me multiple times that it was Wizard's Toolkit which allowed his company to develop so quickly and attract the attention of investors and Google.