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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

Common properties

There are some common properties that should or can be used when defining a Data Access. These properties are:

  • Cache: The cache can also be defined as an attribute when defining a Data Access. When defining the cache as an element, we should also specify the two attributes, duration and enabled. The first attribute is used to define the time that the query will be cached since the last execution. The enabled attribute will be set to true or false depending on whether you want to enable it or disable it.
  • Name: This is the friendly name of the data access being defined.
  • Columns: This is an element that can create a different output by changing the name of a column or just by adding new ones using calculated columns. To change the name of columns, you would just need to specify the columns' idx, starting from 0, and the desired name, as shown in the following example:
    <Column idx="0">
       <Name> Region </Name>    
    </Column>
    <Column idx...
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