gistfile1.txt

// Retrieving the "dashboard" object will tell you how to draw the
// dashboard. I've organized the things with "panes" so if we want to
// add a right top or bottom one later the data format already
// supports it.

var exdata = {

 "dashboard": {
    "name" : "mydashboard",
    "creator" : "spike",
    "theme" : "mytheme",
    "created" : "20091118195611",
     "panes" : {
        // any object appearing in a pane is an object to render
        "west" : {
            "title" : "Left Panel",
            // whenever an item is created its type + date/timestamp
            // is used to make up a unique name which you can then
            // look up as an object
            "items" : [
                "accordion20091118232649"
            ]
        },
        "center" : {
            "title" : "Center Panel",
            "tabs" : [
                "tab20091118232831",
                "tab20091118232850"
            ]
        }
    }
 },

 "accordion20091118232649" : {
    type: 'accordion',
    items: {
        // each first level object is an item in the accordion and the
        // text to be displayed is the key of the object
        "Main Menu" : ['menuliststatic', {
            "type": "linklist",
            "items" : [
                // key is the test to be displayed and the value to build
                // the url
                ["Services", "/services"],
                ["Hosts", "/hosts"],
                ["Problems", "/problems"],
                ["Help", "/help"]
            ]
        }],
        "Widgets" : ['widgetsliststatic', {
            "type" : "iconlist",
            "items_url" : "/widgets/listall" // this will return the json
                                         // snippet below
        }]
    }
 },

 "widgets" : [
    {
        title: 'calendar',
        "icon" : "calendar.png",
        // this defines what js to load when the widged is dropped in
        // the workspace
        "code" : "jquery-calendar.js",
        // this might not be useful but in case defines what function
        // to call to initialize the widget
        "init" : "someFunction()"
    },
    {   
        title: "rss",
        "icon" : "rss.png",
        "code" : "jquery-rss.js",
        "init" : "readRss()"
    }
 ],

 "tab20091118232831" : {
    type: 'tab',
    // what to display on the tab
    "label" : "Tab Number One",
    // list of widgets contained in that tab
    "windows" : [
        ["calendar20091119001220" , {
            "type" : "calendar",
            "left" : 50,
            "top" : 50,
            "width" : 200,
            "heigth" : 300,
            "scrollbar" : false,
            "settings" : {
                "date" : "2008-07-15",
                "view" : "week"
            }
        }],
        ["rss20091119001647" , {
            "type" : "rss",
            "left" : 300,
            "top" : 50,
            "width" : 200,
            "heigth" : 500,
            "scrollbar" : true,
            "settings" : {
                "url" : "http://some/url/atom.rss"
            }
        }]
    ]
 },

 "tab20091118232850" : {
    type: 'tab',
    "label" : "Tab number Two",
    //...
 }
};