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Learning Pentaho CTools

By : Miguel Gaspar
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Learning Pentaho CTools

By: Miguel Gaspar

Overview of this book

Pentaho and CTools are two of the fastest and most rapidly growing tools for practical solutions not found in any other tool available on the market. Using Pentaho allows you to build a complete analytics solution, and CTools brings an advanced flexibility to customizing them in a remarkable way. CTools provides its users with the ability to utilize Web technologies and data visualization concepts, and make the most of best practices to create a huge visual impact. The book starts with the basics of the framework and how to get data to your dashboards. We'll take you all the way through to create your custom and advanced dashboards that will create an effective visual impact and provide the best user experience. You will be given deep insights into the lifecycle of dashboards and the working of various components. Further, you will create a custom dashboard using the Community Dashboards Editor and use datasources to load data on the components. You will also create custom content using Query, the Freeform Addins Popup, and text components. Next, you will make use of widgets to create similar sections and duplicate components to reproduce other components on a dashboard. You will then learn to build a plugin without writing Java code, use Sparkl as a CPK plugin manager, and understand the application of deployment and version control to dashboard development. Finally, you will learn tips and tricks that can be very useful while embedding dashboards into other applications. This guide is an invaluable tutorial if you are planning to use custom and advanced dashboards among the solutions that you are building with Pentaho.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Learning Pentaho CTools
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

The multi-select component


The multi-select component, identified by the name MultiSelect, is very similar to the select component. The big difference is that we may select multiple options in the selector. When we need to provide the ability to choose multiple values from the selector, this is the component to use.

For you to be able to test it and see how it works, you can create a component with a values array that will display more than the four rows in the preceding example. Render the component and check that you now have multiple selections. The properties that are available are the same as those for the select component.

One important feature that is common to all the components inside the Selectors group is that they can be nested, so the selection of one can depend on the selection of another and so on. The concept behind this is the same as for the remaining components: having to pass parameters to the data sources and listening to the parameters that trigger this update to fetch...