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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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 Gaspar Gaspar
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Learning Pentaho CTools
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
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

Useful functions of the CDF API


CDF provides a list of methods/functions that you can and should use when building the dashboards. Next, you will find some of the most used functions.

Functions from the dashboards module:

  • init(components): This function is used to start the execution of the dashboard. You have seen this function in our examples. It receives an argument and an array of the components to execute. This function can be called without any argument, but in this context we need to add the components to the dashboard using the addComponents function.

  • addComponents(components): This function accepts an array with the components to add to the dashboard.

  • addComponent(component): This is the same as the previous function, but will just add one component.

  • removeComponent(component): This will remove a component from the list of the components of the dashboard.

  • getComponentByName(component): This returns the component with the name specified as an argument.

  • update(component): This will...

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