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Published inMay 2016
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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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Understanding Pentaho App Builder


 

"Sparkl, or Pentaho App Builder, is a plugin creator instrument that sits on 2 major cornerstones of Pentaho: CTools and PDI, aiming to leverage as much as possible of our existing stack."

 
 --Pedro Alves

The main idea is to use both of the two most amazing tools in Pentaho: the CTools and Kettle (also known as Pentaho Data Integration). If you know how to build Kettle jobs and transformations and also know how to build a dashboard, you should be able to build a Pentaho plugin. If not, it's about time to learn. I can recommend you two books: https://www.packtpub.com/big-data-and-business-intelligence/pentaho-data-integration-beginners-guide-second-edition and https://www.packtpub.com/big-data-and-business-intelligence/pentaho-data-integration-4-cookbook.

If you didn't know Java code, it would be hard for you to create a plugin, but that's not the case anymore as you are able to do it without the need to write Java code. You can also create a CTools dashboard...

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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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