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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

Using components inside the dashboards

We have not really covered the concept of a dashboard if we do not show any Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), charts, tables, and so on. CDF provides many components we can use to create the dashboard. To use them, we just need to extend the code we used previously. You saw that we need to include the modules we will need. Each component is a module that has its own dependencies that will be loaded automatically when we include the component.

The previous example shows the code that should be placed inside the XCDF file. This code creates a dashboard with a simple text component that returns a simple Hello World! message.

If you look at the code, you will find that we are including the dashboard module and also the component module. You will see that we are already using the Bootstrap framework. For this case, we are also including cdf/components/TextComponent, the module that makes it possible to use a text component, one of the simplest components...

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