Learning Pentaho CTools

Summary

In earlier chapters, you may have got the idea that working with CTools, you would need to write a lot of code, but as you can see, CDE can save you a lot of work, and you can have a dashboard that works with no or almost no code.

In this chapter, you learned how to use CDE to create a dashboard, so at this time you should already know how to build a CDE dashboard. You are now able to create the layout of a responsive dashboard, define the data sources, and then make use of the parameters and components. At this time, you should already know the importance of parameters, the ones from the dashboard and the ones set on the queries, and how to establish the mapping between them. Also, you learned about how to set the listeners so that the ...