Creating a new dashboard style/template
Besides the dashboard type, we can also specify a dashboard style that will somehow work as a template wrapper for the dashboards. Here you can include some scripts or just HTML; you can define what is valid for an HTML file.
Extending styles for CDF dashboards
We saw earlier that when creating a CDF dashboard, we should specify the style in the XCDF file similar to <style>clean</style>. This will instruct CDF to make use of a particular template/style for our dashboard.
By default, the templates are inside a folder in the filesystem, in the plugin itself. The folder is <baserver>/pentaho-solutions/system/pentaho-cdf. When we create styles/templates, we need to have them in one place that is accessible for ...
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