Tech Talks After Hours: No Code Dynamic Dashboards Part 2
On this episode Jerome Marcq and Sam Eburn join Tom Linton to continue demonstrating how to build no code, collection type Dynamic Dashboards.
Key Topics Covered
- Recap of related resources: the live Tech Talk episode, Sam Eburn's community blogs, the Design & Reference Guide, and prior FDX Passport episodes
- Existing classic dashboards continue to work — these techniques are purely additive
- Planning the end-state layout before building: using a sketch or Excel diagram to map headers, content areas, and repeating rows
- Workspace setup: when to use a single maintenance unit vs. splitting into separate modules as complexity grows
- Learning technique: recreate an existing working dashboard from scratch to build fluency
- Creating dashboard groups and components within a maintenance unit
- Associating header and content dashboards to a frame, with iterative preview in Designer Mode
- Naming conventions: prefixes and suffixes (e.g., btn, cbcx, PLP) for maintainability and consistency with marketplace solutions
- Template parameters: defining them, passing them into component properties (e.g., border color), and propagating changes across all instances
- Storing template parameter values in a literal value parameter and applying via a button for entity- or division-specific styling
- Designer Mode as a navigation shortcut: clicking Edit on any dynamic component goes directly to its controlling template