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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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The template add-in


There is one other add-in that was not covered, and it's available for the template component but also in the table component. The way it works is pretty much the same as the template component.

There are three ways for the add-in to use the data being processed. The first one is by working on the query to return a string with the JSON structure that will be parsed by the default modelHandler function. There is another way: overwriting the modelHandler function by writing your own code and returning a custom and valid JSON structure as the model. If none of the earlier options return valid JSON, then the value will be treated as a string. Please refer to: http://www.json.org for more information.

Just use the method that you are most comfortable with, prepare everything in the query/backend, or use the available function to return a valid model that can be applied to the template being defined.

The way to apply options to the add-in is the same as already covered for the...

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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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