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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

Customizing tooltips


CCC provides the ability to change the default tooltip format, and can be changed using the tooltipFormat property. We can change it, making it look like the following image, on the right. You can also compare it to the one on the left, which is the default one:

The tooltip default format might change depending on the chart type, but also on some options that you apply to the chart, mainly crosstabMode and seriesInRows. The property accepts a function that receives one argument, the scene, which will be a similar structure as already covered for the click event. You should return the HTML to be shown on the dashboard when we hover the chart.

In the previous image, you will see on the chart on the left side the defiant tooltip, and on the right a different tooltip. That's because the following code was applied:

tooltipFormat: function(scene){
  var year = scene.atoms.series.label;
  var territory = scene.atoms.category.value;
  var sales = Utils.numberFormat(scene.vars.value...
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