CDE dashboard overview

The Community Dashboard Editor (CDE) and its underlying technologies (CDF, CDA and CCC) enable rapid development and deployment of the Pentaho CTools dashboards. The CDE tool was created to simplify the creation, design, and rendering processes of the CTools dashboards. It is a powerful and complete tool, seamlessly integrating the user interface with data sources and custom components.

Note: Since CTools dashboards operate independently from the Pentaho Dashboard Designer, the dashboards are not compatible with one another.

The following tour of the Editor interface assumes you have activated CDE.

For more information about the CDE dashboard, see the following topics:

• View a CDE dashboard sample

• Open the CDE interface

• CDE Menu bar

• CDE Perspectives toolbar

• Community Dashboard Editor (CDE) perspectives