Learning Pentaho CTools

Adding resources – JavaScript and CSS

You already saw how to create a new dashboard, and add components, but you haven't yet seen how to include JavaScript and CSS code, which is available in CDF. I always like to add my JavaScript files with the code for the project/dashboard. Regardless of whether we are creating a dashboard or multiple dashboards in a project, we should always develop it while bearing in mind that we may need to have multiple dashboards, and some of the code and style could be reused for these multiple dashboards.

If you are building dashboards that are similar to each other, you should rethink the way you are creating or designing your dashboards. A dashboard can be flexible in a way that will let you change the behavior and ...