Cody did a developer commentary a couple weeks ago on Merchant Gateways, you might find it interesting if you’re a developer (Hey maybe even if you aren’t!).
If you’ve been following us for a while, you’ve already seen parts of the dashboard (For the 1st time in the Staff Calendar video). This time, I wanted to dig in a little deeper and show you how it works, and how flexible & customizable it really is.
If you stick with me, I have some new themes to show you toward the end too.
Some notable items..
- The dashboard consists largely of widgets. Widgets are plugins which can be created by developers, dropped in and installed.
- Widgets can be moved around, minimized and customized, unique to the staff account. Everything stays where you left it.
- Since widgets are plugins, they can register and be included in the staff group ACL (Access Control List). This provides for better separation of staff roles.
- GeoIP can be enabled in the settings, giving Blesta and all plugins access to geolocation data. The System Overview widget we’ll ship with makes use of it.
- Drag and drop is awesome.
- Themes are now extremely flexible, we’ve improved them more since the video we did on them. If you really want to get crazy you can (Warning, may induce vomiting).
The video is below, as usual you can make the video full screen, and be sure to turn on your sound.