After showing how we can create a dashboard from scratch using Pentaho Dashboard Designer, we'll now look at how to choose an input parameter to dynamically set the country that we want to filter our dataset to get the top 10 ranking. This recipe shows us how to add one or more input parameter to our dashboard. Remember that this recipe makes use of Pentaho Dashboard Designer, a tool available only in the EE version of Pentaho.
The following steps detail how simply we can create a parameter to get user input from the dashboard:
From the Browse Files perspective, go to the
/public/Pentaho BA Cookbook/Dashboards
location, select the report Dashboard 1 from the previous recipe, and choose Open from the File Actions menu on the right.From the Objects option located on the left side of the band, select the Prompts item (see the following screenshot for details). The Prompts option's detail mask appears on the right-hand side of the Objects explorer...