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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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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

Template component


The template component is a component that allows us to create custom visualizations based on templates and models, all based on the data that we have acquired from a data source. The concept of building HTML content is not new, just the fact that we now have a component that allows us to do that. Maybe you don't need them for simple use cases, as using the query or freeform component can be an alternative, but it doesn't take too much complexity before the use of a template component becomes a good decision.

One of the big advantages of using templates is that we can have the same template making use of the same model with different data. So, if the model is the same but just the data has changed, which can be the result of a query, it will leverage the work you need to build a section of a dashboard. It also lets you split the structure of the content to display from the data that needs to be displayed, so your dashboard will have less complexity when building custom...

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