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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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Dashboard storage


It's now possible to maintain parameter states between different sessions. Instead of using simple parameters, objects inside the special namespace storage can be saved and restored.

Dashboards can store values as per the user preferences. Let's suppose you have a dashboard where you want to persist the status next time you get on the dashboard. It's possible to do this with the storage functionality of CDF. Each time that the function dashboard.saveStorage() is called, CDF will store the content of the dashboard.storage object. When the dashboard is loaded for that user, the dashboard will have access to the object dashboard.storage where all the collections (objects and arrays) or functions are defined.

Tip

Don't forget to save the storage:

Storage will only be saved on the server side after running the dashboard.saveStorage()function; otherwise if you refresh the dashboard before saving it, you will notice that you have lost the last changes before the last save.

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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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