Populating a CDF dashboard with data coming from a PDI transformation

A dashboard is 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 being 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 a minimal experience with the Pentaho BI Server. Some experience with the Community Dashboard Editor (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...