Chapter 9 Updating Your Dashboard

Updating your CaRDO dashboard when new cancer data is available is straightforward. It simply requires repeating the steps outlined on the CaRDO Example and Publishing pages each time a new cancer extract is available.

Laucch CaRDO using the command below and load your new cancer data when prompted by the interface - the same steps you previously worked through to build your CaRDO dashboard.

CaRDO::create_dashboard()

We recommend publishing updates to a draft / testing version to inspect for errors or inconsistencies before updating the public facing dashboard. Once you’re comfortable with the update, republish the testing version to the public facing dashboard. For example, if your dashboard is called ‘/CaRDOExample’, you might initially publish your update to a second dashboard called ‘/CaRDOExample_draft’ and keep that link internal. Once you’re confident the data in the dashboard is accurate, then republish the update to your primary dashboard ‘/CaRDOExample’.

In addition to updating cancer data, be sure to update any population files that may require updating when new cancer data becomes available.