Saving screen space with the Dashboard View plugin
In the Efficient use of views recipe, you that you can save tab space using the Views
plugin. In this recipe, you will use the Dashboard View
plugin to condense the use of the horizontal space. Condensing the horizontal space aids in assimilating information efficiently.
The Dashboard View
plugin allows you to configure areas of a view to display specific functionality, for example, a grid view of the jobs or an area of the view that shows the subset of jobs failing. The user can drag and drop the areas around the screen.
Note
The developers have made the dashboard easily extensible, so expect more choices later.
Getting ready
Install the Dashboard View
plugin (https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Dashboard+View). Either create a few jobs by hand or use the HTML form that provisioned jobs in the last recipe.
How to do it...
- The
Dashboard View
plugin divides up the screen into areas. During dashboard configuration, you choose the jobs grid...