Learning Pentaho CTools

Extending or creating new dashboard types

CDF also provides three types of dashboard that you can use when creating a CDF dashboard. It's also possible to extend the functionality of CDF and create new dashboard styles. The three dashboards types that are available out of the box are:

• Clean: When using this, the dashboard does not load any CSS—it's just an empty container. It might create some more work, but it also gives you more flexibility and enables a high level of customization. The way to use this dashboard is by setting the module in the modules dependency of RequireJS. The instruction should resemble: require(['cdf/Dashboard.Clean'],...)
• Blueprint: When using this, the dashboard loads the blueprint CSS framework, which you can find at ...