by Andrew Cave | Apr 20, 2020 | Data Engineering, Fun and Interesting, How To, Pentaho
This is part 2 of the post about using a Pentaho CTools Community Dashboard Editor (CDE) form to send data to a Pentaho transformation (see Part 1) . This means that we can use a CDE form to allow users to put data into the Pentaho system and it can be used for...
by Andrew Cave | Apr 14, 2020 | Data Engineering
This is a Part 1 of a simple tutorial for using a Community Dashboard Editor (CDE) form in the Pentaho BA server to end data and pass it to a Pentaho transformation for storage/processing. See Part 2 for building the back-end handler First create a New CDE Dashboard...
by Andrew Cave | Jul 23, 2019 | How To, Pentaho, Resources, Training
A common technique to restrict access in Pentaho Report Designer is use the variable ‘${env::username}’ in queries. This is replaced with the currently logged in username on the server and allows group memberships/rows access to be identified at the...
by Andrew Cave | Sep 3, 2018 | How To, Main Blog, News, Pentaho, Resources, Training, Uncategorized
Pentaho Enterprise and Community Editions offer the Scheduling tool to enable jobs to be set to run at certain times on a repeatable basis. At the moment, while the schedule is viewable, there is no built-in method for extracting the schedules for reporting or...
by Andrew Cave | Aug 6, 2018 | Analytics Products, How To, News, Troubleshooting
The Pentaho ETL tools are really powerful, flexible and useful. However, being so complex they are prone to sometimes throwing errors that aren’t that easy to interpret. To assist others with this, I’m posting some of these error strings and how I managed...
