Sparkl : Creating Effective Dashboards on Pentaho

With the introduction of Sparkl pluign which works with Pentaho 5 and above, it has become very easy to create Dashboards which can be quickly created.

To understand what sparkl is, you should consider reading : http://pedroalves-bi.blogspot.it/2013/10/sparkl-pentaho-application-builder.html
http://forums.pentaho.com/showthread.php?151358-Sparkl-A-Pentaho-Application-Builder

How to work with sparkl : http://fcorti.com/pentaho-sparkl/

Getting some useful tips to create your first production dashboard: http://diethardsteiner.github.io/review/2014/08/10/Pentaho-Sparkl-Tips.html

If you wish to check how to debug the kettle endpoints: http://forums.pentaho.com/showthread.php?156393-Debugging-Sparkl-applications-Pentaho-JCR-Repository-Synchronizer-real-world-example

Documentation to develop plugin: http://wiki.pentaho.com/display/ServerDoc2x/Developing+Plugins

Creating Pentaho report using Rest API

Reference: http://woodlouse.blogspot.fr/2013/02/how-to-create-pentaho-report-using-rest.html

Use of dynamic variables to form URL
http://www.nathanhoeft.com/2012/03/24/couchdb-and-pentaho-data-integration/