Dashboard

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#1

I have a Team application, Athletes, Schedule (list not calendar), Records that all relate to a ‘Team’.

I would like to have a Dashboard that has these for applications open and the Dashboard is opened when a person selects a Team from another application.

How do I pass this information to the dashboard and the opened widgets?

Thanks

#2

In general, by sending it as Post or Get data. Be aware that this is a potential security breach as anyone can access your application. Solution might be to use encryption or userid/password in combination of ssl. So your application could be called using myapp.php?mypar1=a&myparm2=b etc. To be retrieved as [mypar1] or $_GET Use a blank application and then re-open your dashboard. Otherwize you have a real issue to refesh the different panels, or… use the time to autorefresh, but it looks less responsive then.

#3

Thanks.

If I upfront the dashboard with a blank application, would this help and avoid the security concerns?

#4

It depends and it’s hard to tell. If you are receiving parameters from another application you have to think well about your design to prevent security issues. Scriptcase does a lot, but the chain is always as strong as the weakest link.

#5

If I have a ‘Blank’ SC application that sets a global variable and then launches the dashboard, should be concerned about security in that case?

#6

It depends what you do with the global variable. If this is used into your sql directly then you might have introduced a way to do sql injection which could be very harmful.

#7

I am only using it a a global_var to know which team to use in a dashboard about teams - which is a # value - others are rejected