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Miguel Gaspar
Miguel Gaspar
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Miguel Gaspar

Miguel Gaspar started working at Webdetails about 3 years ago, some time before the acquisition of Webdetails by Pentaho. He was a consultant in the Implementation team and his work involved developing dashboard solutions as part of services. He is now acting as the technical owner of some of the Implementations projects as part of the Webdetails team in Pentaho. He likes to be as professional as possible, but in an informal way. One of his favorite hobbies is learning and his particular areas of interest are: business analytics, predictive analysis and big data, augmented reality, and cloud computing. He likes to play and is a huge martial arts fan and also one of the worst soccer players ever. He is married and a parent of two young and lovely daughters, who would like to spend more time playing like crazies with him. He also likes to spend time with friends or just having a drink and a good talk with someone else, if possible with his family at his side. He really hates liars.
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Once you have created a file and uploaded it to BA Server, the .cda extension will tell Pentaho how to handle this file. When clicking on a .cda file, in the context menu that becomes available on the right side of Pentaho User Console (PUC), you will be able to edit and open the previewer. When selecting edit, you will see a screen like the following:

You can see the editor on the center of the page, and three buttons on the right-hand side, above the editor. We are able to change the XML file and use the buttons to trigger some actions. The available actions are:

  • Save: To save the changes we can make in the editor

  • Reload: To reload the content of the file

  • Preview: This will open the previewer so that we can see the results of the execution of the data source

There are two ways to preview a query result when using CDA. The first one is using the CDA previewer, a GUI that will let you select the Data Access that you would like to execute. To open the previewer, you...

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Miguel Gaspar

Miguel Gaspar started working at Webdetails about 3 years ago, some time before the acquisition of Webdetails by Pentaho. He was a consultant in the Implementation team and his work involved developing dashboard solutions as part of services. He is now acting as the technical owner of some of the Implementations projects as part of the Webdetails team in Pentaho. He likes to be as professional as possible, but in an informal way. One of his favorite hobbies is learning and his particular areas of interest are: business analytics, predictive analysis and big data, augmented reality, and cloud computing. He likes to play and is a huge martial arts fan and also one of the worst soccer players ever. He is married and a parent of two young and lovely daughters, who would like to spend more time playing like crazies with him. He also likes to spend time with friends or just having a drink and a good talk with someone else, if possible with his family at his side. He really hates liars.
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