CTools Fundamentals

Pentaho Course ID:

CT1000

Duration:

2 days

Dates:

Course description

This CTools basic training will teach you how to develop perfectly designed dashboards in line with your corporate identity. This training will also provide you with a new kind of user experience.

You will also learn to quickly and easily create dynamic dashboards that make it easy for your colleagues to understand how large amounts of data can be presented in various diagrams and tables, as desired or needed.

Target Audience

Business User	Business Analyst	Data Analyst	Software Architect	Pentaho Admin	Pentaho Support

Learning Goals

After completing this course, you will be able to:

describe the approach to creating a dashboard design
describe the purpose of a dashboard framework such as CDF
name and describe the CTools core components CDA, CDE and CCC
recognise and use the technology behind CTools
describe the CTools training environment
create a dashboard layout using CDE
describe the core concept of the CDE’s life cycle
describe the CDE data source (perspective)
add Mondrian data sources to the dashboard
describe the CDE components (perspective)
add a table element to the dashboard
describe the meaning of CCC and CCC2
add a pie chart and a line chart to a dashboard
create extensions for an individual table with the aid of the CTools documentation
add parameter components to your dashboard
specify parameters and add them to the dashboard
add selector components to a dashboard
use widgets in a CDE dashboard

Course schedule

Day 1

Module 1	Dashboard design
Lesson	Dashboard design stages

Module 2	CTools architecture
Lesson	CTools architecture

Module 3	Introduction to CDF and CDE
Lesson	CDF technology, features and use
Lesson	Introduction to CDE
Lesson	The CDE layout (perspective)
Exercise	Creating a grid layout for kpiRow

Module 4	Creating a dashboard data source with CDA
Lesson	Introduction to CDA
Lesson	Adding a Mondrian data source to the dashboard
Exercise	Adding a line chart query to the dashboard
Lesson	Adding compound data accesses