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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

Summary

In this chapter, you learned how to embed CFD and CDE dashboards in third-party applications. You saw that we must first embed CDF or CDE and then embed the dashboards. When embedding a CDE dashboard, there are two ways to do it. When embedding, it might also be important to receive information from, and send it to, the dashboard or create links between dashboards, and for that we can make use of events.

We also talked about some aspects of the delivery of dashboards, which should also include documentation and knowledge transfers. Depending on who we are delivering the solution to, the technical level of the knowledge transfer and documentation might be quite different. Version control is an important part of the process when developing a dashboard; this is not part of the delivery, but it might be part of the deployment, so we discussed it in this chapter.

Finally, we covered where and how you can get help or a solution to your problems when developing dashboards using CTools. You...

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