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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

Internationalization of CCC Charts


We already saw that all the values coming from the database should not need to be translated. There are some ways in Pentaho to do this, but we may still need to set the title of a chart, where the title should be also internationalized. Another case is when you have dates where the month is represented by numbers in the base axis, but you want to display the month's abbreviated name. This name could be also translated to different languages, which is not hard.

For the title, sub-title, and legend, the way to do it is to use the instructions on how to set properties on preExecution and the instructions that we already covered in an earlier Chapter 6, Tables, Templates, Exports, and Text Components about i18n. First, you will need to define the properties files for the internationalization and set the properties/translations:

var cd = this.chartDefinition; 
cd.title =  this.dashboard.i18nSupport.prop('BOTTOMCHART.TITLE');

To change the title of the chart based...