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Learning Pentaho CTools

You're reading from   Learning Pentaho CTools Acquire finesse with CTools features and build rich and custom analytics solutions using Pentaho

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785283420
Length 388 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Miguel Gaspar Miguel Gaspar
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with CTools FREE CHAPTER 2. Acquiring Data with CDA 3. Building the Dashboard Using CDF 4. Leverage the Process with CDE 5. Applying Filters to the Dashboard 6. Tables, Templates, Exports, and Text Components 7. Advanced Concepts Using CDF and CDE 8. Visualizations Using CCC 9. Pentaho App Builder 10. Embed, Deploy, and Debug Index

Chapter 4. Leverage the Process with CDE

In the previous chapter, you saw how to create custom dashboards at the code level, and now you will see how to build them in an easier and faster way. Creating a custom dashboard should not be difficult and time-consuming, and CDE is a Pentaho server plugin that allows you to create, edit, and render a dashboard easily. CDE can build all the code for you, and you just need to use the graphical interface that CDE will make available to you to create or edit your dashboards.

The topics covered in this chapter are based on how to create a dashboard using a graphical user interface (GUI). You will gain knowledge on how to build a responsive layout for the dashboard, add components, add some custom code, and add resources (both JavaScript and CSS) to the dashboard to create and use data sources without the need to create the CDA file by hand. What you learn here will help you to leverage the process and decrease the development time of the...

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