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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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The template component is a component that allows us to create custom visualizations based on templates and models, all based on the data that we have acquired from a data source. The concept of building HTML content is not new, just the fact that we now have a component that allows us to do that. Maybe you don't need them for simple use cases, as using the query or freeform component can be an alternative, but it doesn't take too much complexity before the use of a template component becomes a good decision.

One of the big advantages of using templates is that we can have the same template making use of the same model with different data. So, if the model is the same but just the data has changed, which can be the result of a query, it will leverage the work you need to build a section of a dashboard. It also lets you split the structure of the content to display from the data that needs to be displayed, so your dashboard will have less complexity when building custom...

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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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