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Aims:

• Move control of what shows on a dashboard to other teams
• Be controlled entirely by a google spreadsheet
• Allow cycling between a few different websites
• Support enhancing a few particular pages for display

The admin-facing aspect of the App looks like this:

You choose a set of tags from the left, which exposes a set of links which will be cycled through on that screen. There are three types of windows you can create: Full Screen, Half-Left and Half-Right. Creating a new window will be attached to the screen where the preferences window is, so move the preferences window to a different screen to work with multiple displays.

You might need to authenticate for a particular screen, you can do that by double clicking on an active link and it will pop up a window what you can interact with.

Tips:

• You can bring the Dashscreen admin window up by pressing cmd + 0 if the app is active
• You can't interact with the dashboard windows at all right now, so make sure you get it right :P

The google spreadsheet expects the following headings on line 0: name, type, tag, href, time (hours). There is a public example version of what we use here

git clone https://github.com/orta/Dashscreens
cd Dashscreens
bundle
bundle exec pod install

It will ask you for some keys, the Team Nav one you can ignore. The spreadsheet url you can get by taking your spreadsheet and clicking the download as CSV menu item in Google Spreadsheets.

There are two main places where stuff happens:

• PrefsController - handles requesting the CSV, updating screen layouts etc, and uses Cocoa bindings to handle displaying info on the main window.
• ScreenViewController - handles taking a list of links, and presenting them in webviews (does some fancy work to try skip loading screens.)