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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

Mapping data


We need to be aware of the way that data mapping is done in the chart. You can understand how it works if you can imagine data input as a table. CCC can receive the data as two different structures: relational and crosstab. If CCC receives data as a crosstab query, it will translate it to a relational structure. You can see this in the following examples.

Crosstab

The following table is an example of the crosstab data structure:

 

Column Data 1

Column Data 2

Row Data 1

Measure Data 1.1

Measure Data 1.2

Row Data 2

Measure Data 2.1

Measure Data 2.2

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Creating crosstab queries

To create a crosstab query, usually you can do this with the group when using SQL; or just use MDX, which allows us to easily specify a set for the columns and for the rows.

Just by looking at the previous and following examples, you should be able to understand that, in the crosstab structure (the previous example), columns and rows are part of the result set, while in the relational format (the...

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