Learning Pentaho CTools

Summary

In this chapter, you learned some advanced features, tricks, and tips that you can use to build fancier dashboards, just save time developing dashboards, or extend the CDF and CDE capabilities by creating new components. We also covered some important features such as internationalization and localization.

You should also now know how to use the bookmarkable parameters to initiate a dashboard from a particular state or just call new dashboards, passing some values to replace the default values for the parameters.

If you create a new dashboard template that will be used to standardize the look and feel of all your dashboards, this topic is also covered in this chapter.

This may be one of the most complex chapters and hard to understand, but ...