Pentaho – Common Dashboard Framework

[5] 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/ [6]

Video presentation: http://www.webdetails.pt/pentaho [7]

My own dashboard built using the on-line demo:

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