Email an Interactive Dashboard? - November 5, 2008 at 3:05 pm

I was fortunate to present a couple of our Flex and AIR based solutions at Dreamforce with Dave Carroll (Salesforce.com Evangelist) and James Ward (RIA Cowboy and Flex Evangelist) while at Dreamforce. The feedback from the audience was great and it is exciting to share the message of Flex and AIR with more developers to help these technologies grow and flourish.

After the session James mentioned that you can actually embed Flex inside of a PDF. When I first heard that it took me a second to wrap my mind around it. Although you can do a lot with a PDF if you have the Adobe server stack, my image of a PDF is just a nicely formatted read-only document. But the more I discussed the idea with James, the more intrigued I was.

This idea could really open up some new design and deployment patterns that may not have been possible before this. You can now do things such as deploy an interactive chart or dashboard within a PDF that can pull updated data from the server when it is opened. I’m curious to see what our internal teams will come up with as they start to experiment with this technology.

You can learn more here by checking out Jame’s blog entry.