Summary

By now, you should have learned what the most common uses of the CTools are. You got to know a summary of the CTools, a little bit of history, and how they were born. You also now know how to install them using the different processes that exist. We talked about the frameworks/libraries that are used with them, but you should gain some more knowledge on how they work, because that will make all the difference when building your dashboards. For that you can refer to the provided links, the official webpages and at least get an idea of how they work.

You won't have a full understanding about the process of building CTools dashboards just yet, but you have an idea, and it's just a matter of adjusting process to the way you work and to provide the best services to your clients. You saw that an important part of this process is to ask the right questions and get a full and accurate knowledge of the business and its goals.

To be able to build a dashboard we need to get data, so in the next chapter, you will learn how to use CDA, and find out how to get the most out of it.