In august of last yet I got an email out of the blue (the authors will certainly excuse my indiscretion):
They now migrated it to version 5.0!
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What is BTable then? From the BTable website description:
And a part that I personally love (as much as all the rest)? Massimo and Luca built this frontend using Sparkl!
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Hi Pedro and Nuno,
our names are Massimo Bonometto and Luca Pazzaglia.
We both work for a small Italian company named Biz Tech whose core business is BI.
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What we like in commercial BI tools is the so called “Drill Anywhere” that is: when I see one number inside one dashboard I would like to have the opportunity to be free to look at any detail under that number.
This is why weeks ago we started to think about a Pentaho Community extension that can reduce the gap between it and other commercial products.
As I wrote before, we are CTools lovers and our thoughts have been translated into a new CDE component that extend CDE standard table.
We call it BTable!
It included a link to a video. We all immediately gathered together a group looking at that and not believing their eyes! It's an analyzer tool built on CDE! Massimo and Luca, from Biz Tech presented it in the PCM13, and very soon after added it to the Pentaho marketplace in version 4.8.our names are Massimo Bonometto and Luca Pazzaglia.
We both work for a small Italian company named Biz Tech whose core business is BI.
(...)
What we like in commercial BI tools is the so called “Drill Anywhere” that is: when I see one number inside one dashboard I would like to have the opportunity to be free to look at any detail under that number.
This is why weeks ago we started to think about a Pentaho Community extension that can reduce the gap between it and other commercial products.
As I wrote before, we are CTools lovers and our thoughts have been translated into a new CDE component that extend CDE standard table.
We call it BTable!
They now migrated it to version 5.0!
What is BTable then? From the BTable website description:
BTable is a component for the Pentaho Community Dashboard Designer (CDE) that extends the standard Table Component with OLAP functionalities and provides a new drill experience.
Dashboard users can easily interact with the table through a context menu that allows to:
Dashboard designers can build flexible and rich tables with little effort, indicating a Mondrian schema and a JNDI connection and writing the initial query in a more friendly manner.
The plugin author, while building the plugin, also included some samples and documentation. So here's what you'll see when trying the plugin itself - not only useful for including in dashboards, but also as a standalone tool!Dashboard users can easily interact with the table through a context menu that allows to:
- add, change or remove dimensions
- add, change or remove measures
- create crosstables
- display grand totals and subtotals
- sort by dimensions or measures
- add additional filters to the table
- unlink the table from the dashboard context to stop listening to external parameters
- drill a cell or drill a row
- swap axis
- export data and also formatting to Excel
Dashboard designers can build flexible and rich tables with little effort, indicating a Mondrian schema and a JNDI connection and writing the initial query in a more friendly manner.
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And a part that I personally love (as much as all the rest)? Massimo and Luca built this frontend using Sparkl!
Great work guys!
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