Learning Pentaho Ctools [Paperback]

About This Book

• Learn everything you need to know to make the most of CTools
• Create interactive and remarkable dashboards using the CTools
• Understand how to use and create data visualizations that can make the difference
• The author of our book works for Pentaho as a Senior Consultant
• Acts as a follow-up to Packt's previously published products on Pentaho such as Pentaho Business Analytics Cookbook, Pentaho Analytics for MongoDB, Pentaho Data Integration Cookbook - Second Edition, and Pentaho Reporting [Video]
• Our book is based on the latest version of Pentaho, that is, 6.0

Who This Book Is For

If you are a CTools developer and would like to expand your knowledge and create attractive dashboards and frameworks, this book is the go-to-guide for you. A basic knowledge of JavaScript and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is highly recommended.

What You Will Learn

• Install Community Tools on Pentaho and understand the necessary concepts and considerations when creating an exciting dashboard design
• Use Community Data Access (CDA) as the data abstraction layer and understand the concepts of the Community Dashboard Framework (CDF)
• Understand how the listeners and parameters work to create interaction between components
• Make use of the out-of-the-box feature and customize Community Charts Components
• Customize and create interaction between all components, including charts, using Community Charts Components
• Create and embed dashboards in a new and better way
• Create plugins without writing Java code

In Detail

Pentaho and CTools are two of the fastest and most rapidly growing tools for practical solutions not found in any other tool available on the market. Using Pentaho allows you to build a complete analytics solution, and CTools brings an advanced flexibility to customizing them in a remarkable way.

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