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Digital Dashboard Services Component

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The Digital Dashboard Services Component (DDSC) is a client-side component that is included in every dashboard page as a hidden object. This component makes Web Parts truly reusable and easier to build by providing a standard infrastructure for several services.

In This Section

  • Part Discovery Service
    The Part Discovery service makes it possible for Web Parts to discover other Web Parts on a dashboard.
  • Notification Service
    Through the Notification service, Web Parts can indicate interest in an event, providing a handle to a function that will be called when the event runs.
  • Session State Management Service
    Through the Session State Management service, Web Parts can share data with other parts (even if the Web Parts are located on other dashboards) through name-value pairs associated with the browser session.
  • State Management Service
    State management is a simple but essential feature of dashboard applications. The state of a Web Part or dashboard is the combination of standard Web Part and dashboard schema properties and any user- or system-defined extensions.
  • Item Retrieval Service
    The Item Retrieval service makes it possible for Web Parts to retrieve items, such as Web Parts and dashboards from the store, even if they do not reside on the current dashboard.
  • Digital Dashboard Reference
    When you create a new Digital Dashboard project, you encounter a number of dialog boxes that collect information for your application.
  • Web Part Schema Properties
    The property values of the Web Part schema are interpreted by the dashboard view.
  • Dashboard Schema Properties
    Digital Dashboards define a standard set of properties that determine the behavior and appearance of the Digital Dashboard and the Web Parts that it contains.