chance to know how the life cycle of the dashboards and the components works. Pentaho uses
the CDF framework inside the platform, so some concepts will become clear to you. Readers will
also be challenged to create their first dashboard using CDF to better understand the concepts
of Community Dashboards Editor.
Leverage the Process with CDE
, will be focused on the advantages and
disadvantages of using Community Dashboards Editor (CDE) and why to use CDE to build a
dashboard. Here, we will learn how to create dashboards without writing code or leveraging the
work without the need to write code. The reader will also learn how to build a responsive and
interactive dashboard, starting with the main concepts, and how to use the available graphical
interface. Among the other concepts, you will learn how to create a layout, use components, and
set some queries to be used inside the components. The chapter will also teach what needs to
be changed to quickly build dashboards when using CDE. An important part is how to add more
resources to the dashboard, and include them in the execution of the dashboard.
Applying Filters to the Dashboard
, will show how to work with the most important and
commonly used components. This chapter will cover filters and selectors that can be applied to
the dashboard as one way to create interaction by filtering data for the full dashboard, or just
some sections of it. A dashboard is meant to be easy to use and give good insights to get results
at the first look. We can filter the information being displayed. This chapter covers the
components we can use so that the user can have access to all the information, keeping it
simple to understand and only providing information for the selected context.
Tables, Templates, Exports, and Text Components
, covers add-ins for both table and
template components. An important part of building a dashboard is to find the best way to
represent data on the dashboard. We should not focus on only showing a table, a chart, or any
other component, but how to represent the data using that same component. So, this chapter
covers the most commonly used components. There is also another component such as the
exports and the text component. There are some tips on how to avoid performance issues in the
Advanced Concepts Using CDF and CDE
, covers the advanced concepts when
building dashboards with both CDF and CDE dashboards. CDF and CDE provide some really
cool components that have more flexibility and allow you to build your own visualizations. So, we
will also need to cover these components. You will face some requests to
internationalize/localize dashboards, so we will also be covering it. There are some tips and
advanced concepts that new CTools developers may not find easy to understand at first glance,
but that more advanced users will find useful. The chapter also reinforces the concepts of
references to components, parameters, and layout elements.
, may be one of the most expected chapters. A dashboard is
really useful and desirable when a user looks at it and can understand what is going on with the
business without the need of having to look for quite a large amount of information. This is where
visualizations become very useful. This chapter will teach the reader how to make
customizations on the available charts produced by the Community Charts Components (CCC).
This book will show how to apply properties that can be shared between multiple charts.
Readers will get a better knowledge of how to customize charts, where to look for information,
and see some more advanced features useful inside dashboards. I would like to cover all the
aspects, concepts, and properties, but that's almost impossible. CCC is a huge tool with infinite
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