Populating a CDF dashboard with data coming from a PDI transformation
A dashboard, in its broad sense, is an application that shows you visual indicators, for example, bar charts, traffic lights, or dials. A CDF dashboard is a dashboard created with the Community Dashboard Framework. CDF accepts many kinds of data sources, the output of a Kettle transformation being one of them.
In this recipe you will create a very simple dashboard that shows this capability. You will type the name of a city and the dashboard will display graphically the 5-days forecast for that city. The forecast information will be obtained with the sample transformation explained in the introduction.
Getting ready
In order to follow this recipe, you will need minimal experience with the Pentaho BI Server. Some experience with the CDE is also desirable.
Before proceeding, make sure you have a Pentaho BI Server running. You will also need the CDE. You can download it from http://cde.webdetails.org. To install it, simply unzip...
