Hands-on dashboards

Now it's time for you to create your data sources. In order to display the results from the queries, in the next chapter, you should create a CDA file with the following content:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <CDADescriptor> <!—-Data source for the dashboard, a unique data source is used for all connections--> <DataSources> <Connection id="SampleData" type="mondrian.jndi"> <Jndi>SampleData</Jndi> <Catalog>mondrian:/SteelWheels</Catalog> <Cube>SteelWheelsSales</Cube> </Connection> </DataSources> <!-—Data Access to get the territories values--> <DataAccess id="territories" connection="SampleData" type="mdx" access="public"> <Name>territories</Name> <BandedMode>compact</BandedMode> <Query> WITH MEMBER [Measures].[UID] ...

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