Documentation
CDE Tutorial
CDE Open Demos
CDF Tutorial
  • OVERVIEW
    • The Community Dashboard Editor (CDE), which is integrated in the Pentaho User Console (PUC), is a graphical tool for creating, editing and previewing Pentaho dashboards, , contributed and maintained by Hitachi Vantara.
    • Have fun, dazzle your clients and build a "masterpiece of a Dashboard".
    • Create: The Files and settings menu allows you to create, save and rename dashboards.
    • Preview: The Preview option is the shortcut for testing the L&F and behavior of your dashboard as you are working.
    • Layout: For designing the layout of your dashboard, from scratch or from a template, you can apply styles and add HTML elements.
    • Components: For adding and configuring the different visual components that make up your dashboard.
    • Data Sources: For defining the data sources used by the components.
  • SOME REFERENCES
    • Social media
    • Visit our web page to know us better
    • Keep an eye and make a like on our facebook page and keep some news up to date! Here you can follow our news.
    • Get the other eye on Pedro Alves on Business Intelligence blog. Pedro Alves is the founder of Webdetails and his blog will keep you updated on news underlying technology related to Business Intelligence, Ctools, Pentaho and others.
    • Follow us at twitter.
    • Do you need help?
    • You can always get to the Community Tools - CTools in Hitachi Vantara.
    • Collaborative development
    • Keep up date with our version control system at GitHub .
  • EXTERNAL REFERENCES
    • Plugins & libraries
    • Blueprint is a CSS framework, which aims to cut down on your development time. It gives you a solid foundation to build your project on top of, with an easy-to-use grid, sensible typography, useful plugins, and even a stylesheet for printing.
    • Protovis uses JavaScript and SVG for web-native visualizations.
    • Datatables is a plug-in for the jQuery Javascript library. It is a highly flexible tool, based upon the foundations of progressive enhancement, which will add advanced interaction controls to any HTML table.
    • Sparklines is a jQuery plugin for generating sparklines (small inline charts) directly in the browser using data supplied either inline in the HTML, or via javascript.
    • Chosen is a JavaScript plugin that makes long, unwieldy select boxes much more user-friendly. It is currently available in both jQuery and Prototype flavors.
  • OVERVIEW
    • CDE is the Dashboard editor created and used everyday by the Hitachi Vantara team.

    • This Tutorial provides the essential knowledge for you to take full advantage of CDE and start building your own CTools Dashboards.
    • The content has been carefully selected by the CDE dev team itself, guiding you cleanly through the key aspects of CDE.
  • TUTORIAL CONTENT
    • Introduction
    • The CDE Interface.
    • First Dashboard
    • A simple one-chart dashboard.
    • Adding more charts.
    • Reacting to parameters.
    • Making the charts talk to each other.
    • Core Concepts
    • Understanding layout engine.
    • Adding external resources.
    • CCC Grand Tour - Configuring data sets.
    • CCC Grand Tour - Enhancing charts.
    • CCC Grand Tour - Extensions points.
    • Using calculated columns.
    • Understand CDA editor.
    • Creating tables.
    • Using table add-in.
    • Advanced Topics
    • Creating components.
    • Creating Add-Ins.
    • Getting the most out of CDA.
  • PURCHASE TERMS
    • Receive the installer by email within 24 hours.
    • Have the source, so that you can see how everything is built.
    • Get free updates made to the tutorial for the period of 1 year from the date of purchase.
    • Contribute to open-source development effort.
    • Full refund guarantee if you"re not happy with the purchased item.
  • SCREENSHOTS
  • OVERVIEW
    • The Community Dashboard Framework (CDF) is a project that provides an easy to use and powerful dashboard framework on top of the Pentaho BI server.

    • As the main developers of this community project, we understand that sometimes is not easy to achieve exactly what we want.
    • To allow users to get the full benefit of CDF we"ve prepared a set of documentation - a step by step tutorial from "how to start" to the hidden features of this framework.
  • TUTORIAL CONTENT
    • How to Start
    • What files to create and what their contents should be.
    • First Dashboard
    • How to select values and how to return them - use them as parameters.
    • Parametrization
    • Make your reports look good.
    • Permissions
    • How to segregate the data being viewed by collaborators with different profiles.
    • Charts
    • Present your data in several formats.
    • Templates
    • Change the way your dashboards look.
    • Time Series
    • Interact with time based charts.
    • Geo-based Dashboards
    • How to use maps to make your information richer.
    • Gauges and traffic lights
    • Real time view over your business.
    • Tables and Sparklines
    • Build visually pleasing tables.
    • Interactive dashboards
    • Freely explore your data.
  • PURCHASE TERMS
    • Receive the installer by email within 24 hours.
    • Have the source, so that you can see how everything is built.
    • Get free updates made to the tutorial for the period of 1 year from the date of purchase.
    • Contribute to open-source development effort.
    • Full refund guarantee if you"re not happy with the purchased item.
  • SCREENSHOTS
  • OVERVIEW
    • The Community Dashboard Editor Open Demos are a set of dashboards created by the team at Hitachi Vantara using CDE Editor.

    • As the main developers of this community project, we understand that sometimes is not easy to achieve exactly what we want.
    • So we allow you to edit the dashboards and thus discover and learn the tricks and best practices that are behind each of these dashboards.
  • WORK SAMPLES & FEATURES
    • S.Paulo, Brazil
    • Bar chats, line charts and table.
    • Selection allowing some interaction to change result visualization.
    • Orlando, USA
    • A complete dashboard with a lot of features.
    • Table interacting for best use.
    • Welcome to the geek side
    • Advanced charts use with lots os customizations.
    • Product Sales
    • Line charts and advanced features on tables.
    • Using addins in tables.
    • Utrecht, Netherlands
    • A lot of charts and a simple table.
    • For the beginner user .
  • PURCHASE TERMS
    • Receive the installer by email within 24 hours.
    • Have the source, so that you can see how everything is built.
    • Get free updates made to the samples for the period of 1 year from the date of purchase.
    • Contribute to open-source development effort.
    • Full refund guarantee if you"re not happy with the purchased item.
  • SCREENSHOTS