EXT:dashboard_base

The TYPO3 dashboard is rarely used properly because complete examples are missing and several chart types are absent from core. The extension addresses this in three areas.

Demos for All Widget Types

TYPO3 ships two widget interfaces: WidgetInterface and WidgetRendererInterface. The latter is barely documented but enables configurable widget settings directly in the dashboard panel. On top of that there are enhancement interfaces for JavaScript and event data.

The Dashboard Base – Samples widget group contains static demo widgets with dummy data for all these variants, runnable and visible directly in your own TYPO3. SampleRendererWidget demonstrates WidgetRendererInterface fully: a configurable setting, refreshable: true, and a custom label override.

New Chart Classes

TYPO3 core only knows BarChartWidget and DoughnutChartWidget. This extension adds: LineChartWidget, HorizontalBarChartWidget, PieChartWidget, PolarAreaChartWidget, RadarChartWidget, ScatterChartWidget, BubbleChartWidget.

All follow the core pattern: ChartDataProviderInterface supplies the data, registration via Services.yaml:

my_ext.widget.lineChart:
  class: 'GeorgRinger\DashboardBase\Widgets\LineChartWidget'
  arguments:
    $dataProvider: '@My\Extension\Widgets\Provider\MyLineChartDataProvider'
  tags:
    - name: dashboard.widget
      identifier: 'my_ext.lineChart'
      groupNames: 'general'
      title: 'My Line Chart'
      iconIdentifier: 'content-widget-chart-bar'
      height: 'medium'
      width: 'medium'

Production Widgets

All production widgets use WidgetRendererInterface and are configurable via the widget panel:

Widget	Data source	Settings
Scheduler Tasks	tx_scheduler_task	onlyFailed (bool), limit (int)
Disk Space	Project directory
Storage Size	sys_file (indexed files)	mode (storage / mount)
DB Table Sizes	Database schema	minSizeMb, maxTables
Site Statistics	Page tree via recursive CTE

Installation

composer require georgringer/dashboard-base

Requirements

Package	Version
TYPO3 CMS + EXT:dashboard	≥ 14.0
PHP	≥ 8.2