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2009-07-21 - CDF 3.2 released

2009-07-20 - CDF Samples and Tutorial available Here

This project is the next step towards a developer friendly dashboard technology for the Pentaho BI Suite. The first step was a dashboard framework which was introduced by Ingo Klose in this article. Ingo's Article Pentaho Community > Community Dashboard Framework > cdf_screenshot.png

The objective of this framework was mainly to firmly integrate dashboards in Pentaho's solution repository structure. The advantages were:

No need to create additional JSP pages to deliver new dashboards
Add dashboards by adding folders and files to the solution repository
The ability to auto generate a navigation bar that
Picks up new dashboards
Enforces security via Pentaho's security model

The community dashboard project, initiated by Pedro Alves and Ingo Klose, builds on Ingo's framework and adds some new features while keeping a backward compatibility to the initial framework. Among others this project adds the following features:

Dashboard creation with no or very limited java script programming needed
Components - Definition of dashboard objects and variables in a simplified syntax
Auto loading of dashboard objects on load of the dashboard
Auto refresh of dashboard objects after variable values have changed, if a object is bound to the variable
Auto generation of form objects such as textboxes and date pickers
Separation of the html design and component definition
OpenStreetMaps integration
Portlet integration

A new JavaScript library is introduced that encapsulates the necessary code to build the dashboards on runtime, execute Pentaho action sequences and react to user input. Once this library is installed, together with the revised files already introduced in Ingo's framer work, the new dashboard syntax can be used while ensuring the backward compatibility for already implemented dashboards based on the old framework.This first version is only the first step on the journey to user and designer friendly dashboards, tightly integrated in the Pentaho BI suite.

You can find a video presentation of CDF here

You can get samples and tutorials with step-by-step tutorials Here

Please feel free to contact us if you have any ideas or want to participate and contribute to this community project.

We opened a project on Google Code for the Community Dashboard Framework called pentaho-cdf.

Please enter all bugs and feature requests in the issues list.

You can download it in subversion now.

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