foreach ($sel_application->modules as $module)
                {
                    echo "<p ".$first." class='menu_head'>".$module->name."</p>\n";

displays only those modules that are enabled and passed onto it. It appears that the Dashboard module remains inactive as far as ths is concerned even if it has been activated for the company under use.

Therefore during installation, it must be explicitly be made active in the web root's installed_extensions.php and accordingly passed on to the one under the company/#/installed_extensions.php as well.

The non standard approach to having the installed_extensions.php's array subscript "active" as being true/false or 0/1 in the webroot 's installed_extensions.php and in the company/#/installed_extensions.php may cause problems - better to standardise on either the boolean variant or the integer flag method.

The dashboard module's name in line 13 of hooks.php - is it's case sensitivity important:

    var $module_name = 'dashboard';

Lines 18-27 of the dashboard module's dashboard.php:

        //$this->add_module(_("Dashboard"));
        $this->widgets = array();
        $this->add_extensions();

        $this->apps = array("orders"=>_("Sales"),
                        "AP"=>_("Purchases"),
                        "stock"=>_("Items and Inventory"),
                        "manuf"=>_("Manufacturing"),
                        "GL"=>_("Banking and General Ledger"),
                        "Dashboard"=>_("Dashboard"));

also has case sensitive issue for module name and the commented out add_module line.

Also a list of translatable entries should be placed in an empty.po or some sample language file like en_US.po/mo

Since during FA operation, the end user will be switching between tabs, no need to waste time in having widgets on non-Dashboard tabs.

The patch needed is to enable all widgets to be available as menu items in the Dashboard menu tab and make it enabled and have the Dashboard functionality removed from other tabs. Possibly the widget display sql can have the WHERE clause tweaked to not care about the menu tab it is to be displayed in and make a decision to display it only if the Dashboard menu tab is selected.

/Elax

    $hide_inaccessible_menu_items = 1;

then the Dashboard will not be visible as a menu tab. View it by setting above to 0 (default in FA).

Example, I need to enter a customer payment, I press Sales (which display the top 10 customers) then I press payment and pay.

I have the top 100 customers on the dashboard tab for when I need id .

/Elax

Quote from forum post:

The current hg 3227 version shows it as in the attachment

Since the Dashboard Menu tab's contents like Dashboard Setup and Reminder Setup are now in the Miscellaneous Submenu of the Setup Menu, has the Menu Tab been dispensed with?

The company/*/js_cache had been flushed and the browser restarted on fresh login to no avail.

Is this because the Line 18 in modules/dashboard/dashboard.php is commented out (line 9-20):

class dashboard_app extends application
{
    var $widgets;
    var $apps;

    function dashboard_app()
    {
        $this->application("Dashboard", _($this->help_context = "&Dashboard"));

        //$this->add_module(_("Dashboard"));
        $this->widgets = array();
        $this->add_extensions();

This is so even though the lines 12-21 that call it in modules/dashboard/hooks.php are:

class hooks_dashboard extends hooks {
    var $module_name = 'dashboard';

    /*
        Install additonal menu options provided by module
    */
    function install_tabs($app) {

        $app->add_application(new dashboard_app);
    }