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What is the publish for web option in dashboard? Can I put my dashboard panel onto my website? (Please?!!)

Really, this menu item probably should have been removed before DashBoard 7 was released.

The menu item does the equivalent of "lock all proportions" and saves a few other pieces of information about the dimensions of the components inside of the panel for use in an old beta add-on. Unfortunately, at the moment, it doesn't do anything overly useful for you.

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Darn. What about the Share web session menu? I assume that is the add on?

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It's another setting for the same add-on, yes.

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Is there capability for publishing panels?

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Unfortunately, no. There is nothing presently available in DashBoard for doing that.

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Is it possible to have multiple users using the same dashboard? (Multiple computers using same dashboard to write the same xml file)

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There are a few ways to share data in DashBoard.

One mechanism would be to use the jsonport="..." attribute at the top of a custom panel.

What this does:

It exposes the parameters in this custom panel as a virtual device (it turns the custom panel into a server).

In another DashBoard, you can then add a manual connection to your computer's IP at the port you specified in the jsonport attribute.

Changing the parameters in one DashBoard will cause the parameters to change on the other.

What you can then do:

You can then create a new custom panel and point to your virtual device as the panel's data source (make it a client). You can put any parameters from your server custom panel into your client panel.

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As for the approach you asked about: Writing to the same XML file is not a recommend approach. Since DashBoard only writes to the XML file while the panel is open (it doesn't read it again), you would just have 2 panels overwriting each other's data and not showing the updates.

I should also add if you only have simple pieces of information you want to share, you could use a listener tag and have 2 panels pass information to each other over the network however you choose.

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