Support embedding Build Monitor in other dashboards

[tinu1976ch]

hello out there,

why has v1.9 another view than v1.6? I'm working with iFrames to display different machines.

so at the moment I always use the 1.6+build.164 instead of 1.9+build.201605021413 (reason see attached image)

on v1.9 I have to scale text to 2 that I can nearly read the text, but I have to scroll
on v1.6 i have to scale text to 0.3 to fit the bars in the frame and no scroll

possible to adapt the view of v1.6 to v1.9?

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[jan-molak]

Ha! Embedded mode is a use case I haven't anticipated for :-)

OK, so there's a couple of things at play here:

• With the introduction of version 1.9, the default font size is calculated based on the size of the viewport (which should make sense as Build Monitor is designed to be displayed on large screens) - because of that, the size of the iframe affects the size of the viewport so you need to set the font size factor to "2", as per your screenshot.
• Version 1.6 had a CSS bug. The bug forced Build Monitor to squeeze all the jobs one requested it to display on one screen, even if it broke the layout and made the whole thing look pretty ugly. That's why you don't get the scrollbar on the second screenshot, but get cropped header and job names.
• I introduced the scrollbar because on some installations people have several hundred (!) jobs displayed on one screen and without Grouping: Accumulated (worst result) Folder Status #130 it seemed like a sensible temporary workaround. In most scenarios, the scrollbars shouldn't appear because most people display fewer than 30 jobs per screen.

It seems like the best way to solve your problem though would be to introduce an "embedded" mode, with no navigation UI (which means the display would have to be configurable using URL parameters perhaps? #54) and just the job status.

This doesn't solve the problem of too many jobs though. To get rid of this one we'd probably need a better support for CloudBees Folders (#130) to display accumulated status of a group of jobs.

Thoughts?

Best,
Jan

[Anuubis]

I also really would appreciate this fully embeddable mode. I would only need the header and footer tags removed to fit into our dashboards.

Since our dashboard and monitoring service are not under the same domain I cannot inject css into the iframe and do it myself.