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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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Changing properties in preExecution or postFetch


We are able to change the properties for the charts, as with any other component. Inside preExecution, the keyword this, refers to the component itself, so we will have access to the chart's main object, which we can also manipulate and add, remove, and change options.

For instance, you can apply the following code:

function() {
   var cdProps = {
        dotsVisible: true,
        plotFrame_strokeStyle: '#bbbbbb',
        colors: ['#005CA7', '#FFC20F', '#333333', '#68AC2D']
    }; 
    $.extend(true, this.chartDefinition, cdProps);
}

What we are doing is creating an object with all the properties that we want to add or change for the chart, and then extending the chartDefinitions (where the properties or options are). This is what we are doing with the JQuery function.

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This way to apply options makes it easier to set the properties. Just change or add the properties that you need, test it, and...

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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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