Pentaho CDE how use my database

Question

I'm trying to create a Penaho Dashboard using CDE and I have problems accessing my Data. I have found tutorials but they always use SampleData or Steel Wheels. I have managed to do that myself, but I need to access my own database.

I was able to connect with my oracle database from the Data Source manager and created my own Data Source. But now I don't know how to access those tables from CDE. If I chose "sql datasource" I see the SampleData datasource and can do queries on it, but not the one I created with my database.

So, once I create a connection with my orcale database, how do I access my tables from CDE?

Thanks

Answer 1

There are two options:

SQL over JDBC: you define the db host, port, name, username and password; SQL over JNDI: it'll use a registered JNDI from the Pentaho platform.

The JNDI field is an auto-complete field and fills in the various available options. However, if your newly created connection doesn't show up there, don't worry. Just type it in, it'll work.

Answer 2

you have to setup your data-source..

Click on datasources-panel on right corner Click on sql Queries from the list you have seen on left side. then click on sql over sqljndi now here in properties in jndi set your database connection you want to access.

you can-not see the out-put of particular query in CDE for that open the same file in CDA for checking particular query's result(which you can find under files section).