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Learning Pentaho CTools

You're reading from  Learning Pentaho CTools

Product type Book
Published in May 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785283420
Pages 388 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Miguel Gaspar Miguel Gaspar
Profile icon Miguel Gaspar

Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Learning Pentaho CTools
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Getting Started with CTools 2. Acquiring Data with CDA 3. Building the Dashboard Using CDF 4. Leverage the Process with CDE 5. Applying Filters to the Dashboard 6. Tables, Templates, Exports, and Text Components 7. Advanced Concepts Using CDF and CDE 8. Visualizations Using CCC 9. Pentaho App Builder 10. Embed, Deploy, and Debug Index

Chapter 8. Visualizations Using CCC

The Charts Component Library is not really a Pentaho plugin, but instead is a Chart library that Webdetails created some years ago and that Pentaho started to use on Analyzer visualizations. It allows a great level of customization by changing the properties that are applied to the charts and perfectly integrates with CDF, CDE, and CDA.

The dashboards that Webdetails creates make use of CCC charts, usually with a great level of customization. Customizing them is a way to make them fancy and really good-looking and, even more importantly, it is a way to create a visualization that best fits the customer/end user's needs. We really should be focused on having the best visualizations for the end user, and CCC is one of the best ways to achieve this, but to do this you need to have a very deep knowledge of the library, and know how to get amazing results.

I think I could write an entire book just about CCC, and in this chapter I will only be able to cover a...

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