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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

Table component

Besides charts and the template component, the table component is one of the most complete and useful components that we can have on a dashboard. It's very simple to use and we should not think of a table in CDE like traditional tables that we are used to. With the use of add-ins and expanded content we have the ability to create amazing dashboards, which really don't look like a table.

To create tables, CDF uses the JQuery plugin DataTables (http://datatables.net/), which also makes this component exceptional for most parts of the sections on a dashboard. We can extend the capability of DataTables itself by using plugins; we just need to know how to use the plugin and the best way to extend the capabilities of the component.

Like any other component, when using it you should set its name, the htmlObject where it will be rendered, the data source (in this case it's not an option) and, if needed, parameters and listeners. When setting valid values for the previous...

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