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
Available on Google Code: http://code.google.com/p/pentaho-cdf/
Video presentation: http://www.webdetails.pt/pentaho
My own dashboard built using the on-line demo:
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