# Custom Dashboard

**URL:** https://forum.beeminder.com/t/custom-dashboard/1455
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**Created:** [September 29, 2013, 6:06pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/custom-dashboard/1455 "2013-09-29T18:06:13Z")
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### Author: ![Essentiae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Essentiae](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/Essentiae)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2013, 6:06pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/custom-dashboard/1455/1 "2013-09-29T18:06:13Z")

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I’ve made my own custom dashboard using the api to sort goals in the way I  
want and to do all kinds of other little organizational tasks. Most of it  
is in the “experimental” stage, so I’m keeping a lot of the weird tweaks I  
have out of this file. It can probably be done much more simply (and MUCH  
more cleanly) if you know what you’re doing. (I do not.)

Anyway, here it is. Change the info to include your own username and your  
user token. I also like to have a visual representation of each goal so  
that I can find them quickly and because I feel it gives a slight  
motivational kick in the seat, so I include a folder called “goalpics” in  
my public Dropbox folder and in it I name each pic the same as the slug for  
the goal with which it pairs: “slug.jpg” so that it’s automatically added  
to the page as well. (You can use find/replace to either delete that, or to  
put your dropbox info in place of the placeholder.)

Anyway, pop this online along with the api files it needs to run. (My  
userdashboard.php file is on my personal domain in a folder that also  
contains a “lib” folder which contains the “Beeminder” folder that houses  
the api. Someone else will be likely to create a better version of this and  
a better explanation to go along with it. The result is a comfortable and  
tweakable dashboard where you can see all of your goals as well as their  
mini-graphs and images that remind you of why you’re doing all this to  
begin with.

Sometime in the future I might put up an example of a fake version of the  
finished product (unless someone beats me to it or posts their own actual  
dashboard), but if you’re handy with code and have your own domain already,  
you can test it out yourself in under 5 minutes anyway.

Feel free to do whatever you’d like with this. Post improvements to it up  
here so I can steal them, please!

I hope this is useful to someone,  
Essy  
PS - No laughing at the terrible coding please… I don’t have a lot of  
coding skill, so I just duct-taped this together.