Description

The Dashboard Replacement Proof of Concept project was established to address a number of architectural issues related to the ongoing advancement of the Ed-Fi Technical Suite. The  goals of the project were:

• Demonstrate that a technical modernization of the Ed-Fi Dashboard UI is viable.
• Provide a framework for estimating the cost of modernizing the entire Ed-Fi Dashboard.Provide a hand off to a subsequent project that will explore how to replace the existing Dashboard ETL/data pipeline and security mechanisms with an approach that is integrated with the Analytics Middle Tier.

The project was was sponsored by the Ed-Fi Alliance as part of the Reporting and Visualization Work Group activities to explore replacement alternatives for the Ed-Fi Dashboard solution.

The project underwent a second phase of development to further demonstrate the replacement of the original dashboard's DDD back-end and add appropriate security.  The Dashboard's proof-of-concept code repository has been updated to include both phases of development.  The goals of the project were: 

• Replace the existing Dashboard ETL/data pipeline with Analytics Middle Tier (AMT) and modern technologies (e.g. GraphQL)
• Add Authorization mechanisms using AMT's row-level security
• Add oAuth style Authentication

Download

• Code: https://github.com/Ed-Fi-Exchange-OSS/Dashboard-Replacement-POC
• Documentation: 
  • Dashboard POC Final Design.docx
  • Dashboard POC Sizing Estimate.docx
  • Ed-Fi Dashboard UI Project.xlsx

Details

• By: ESP Solutions Group
• License terms: Apache 2.0
• Released: July 2020
• Updated: March 2021