Source for dashboard graphics

[BAC]

My boss has become fascinated with some graphics he's seen on other sites
(animated thermometers and dials/speedometer type thingies etc for data
visuals, reporting, etc).

Anyone know of any good 3rd party packages for these as FP Add-ins or
anything like that? Has anyone used any that work well & look good?

'Preciate ya

BAC

 

[Steve Easton]

They are either animated gif images or have been created with Flash

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[BAC]

I appreciate that, but I really was more hoping for a place to find some of
these I could stick into our site and just "feed the data to" rather than
having to build them myself..

I have no idea where to find a speedometer that would tell me what our sales
to date were with the colored background marking off percent of goal for the
year...

Any ideas where I can find the "template" for these things. I have found
graphics sites that offer J-Bots and software packages with animated
indicators like these,but I haven't found anything that shows me these
particular gifs as part of the "kit"..

 

[clintonG]

Hello BAC,

What you are referring to is called 'instrumentation' and yes, this type of
user interface has also been referred to as a 'dashboard' which generally
applies to a collection of instruments.

Quite frankly, and briefly, unless your boss is prepared to spend some money
his or her goal is not going to be achieved as intrumenting a web
application is not plug-and-play. Instrumentation is quite sophisticated and
requires integration with a backend database. I've provided a couple of
resources to get you started with further evaluation.

<%= Clinton Gallagher
METROmilwaukee (sm) "A Regional Information Service"
NET csgallagher AT metromilwaukee.com
URL http://metromilwaukee.com/
URL http://clintongallagher.metromilwaukee.com/

[1] http://www.kineticart.co.uk/
[2] http://www.ni.com/mstudio/

 

[BAC]

Thanx..This is more in line with what I was asking/looking for...

Hello BAC,

What you are referring to is called 'instrumentation' and yes, this type of
user interface has also been referred to as a 'dashboard' which generally
applies to a collection of instruments.

Quite frankly, and briefly, unless your boss is prepared to spend some money
his or her goal is not going to be achieved as intrumenting a web
application is not plug-and-play. Instrumentation is quite sophisticated and
requires integration with a backend database. I've provided a couple of
resources to get you started with further evaluation.

<%= Clinton Gallagher
METROmilwaukee (sm) "A Regional Information Service"
NET csgallagher AT metromilwaukee.com
URL http://metromilwaukee.com/
URL http://clintongallagher.metromilwaukee.com/

[1] http://www.kineticart.co.uk/
[2] http://www.ni.com/mstudio/

I appreciate that, but I really was more hoping for a place to find some of
these I could stick into our site and just "feed the data to" rather than
having to build them myself..

I have no idea where to find a speedometer that would tell me what our
sales
to date were with the colored background marking off percent of goal for
the
year...

Any ideas where I can find the "template" for these things. I have found
graphics sites that offer J-Bots and software packages with animated
indicators like these,but I haven't found anything that shows me these
particular gifs as part of the "kit"..