One of the most important advantages of Open Source BI tools is that you can have plenty of people working and contributing different kinds of plugins to enable unimaginable scenarios. CTools was started by a company called WebDetails with one such idea to make a host of small and useful plugins and make pentaho more acceptable to developers. WebDetails was recently bought by Pentaho and in versions to come, we might see the entire toolset as a part of distribution itself.
As part of this blog, we would see 3 different ways to install CTools plugins. You may ask why 3 different ways? Well, the simple answer to that is its open source and it follows TIMTOWDI(There is more than one way to do it). You would also understand it why as you go through this post and video tutorial on YouTube.
As part of this blog, we would see 3 different ways to install CTools plugins. You may ask why 3 different ways? Well, the simple answer to that is its open source and it follows TIMTOWDI(There is more than one way to do it). You would also understand it why as you go through this post and video tutorial on YouTube.
- ctools-installer.sh - This is a very strong choice for *nix developers. However, for Windows and Mac, you might need to install necessary tools to be able to run this shell script. Windows might need CygWin to run and Mac users need "wget" utility and can refer here to install it. On Mac however, the pre-requisite is to download and install XCode library from AppStore which is a 2GB install in itself.
- Individual plugins using JAR files - This is a very simple approach and there are no pre-reqs required except JAVA which you would already have since you have installed Pentaho. However, you might need to install each plugin manually and thus its feasible if you need only one or two.
- Pentaho MarketPlace - MarketPlace is an always welcomed approach in any toolset. This also is by far the simplest approach to installing/maintaining and administering the plugin versions across your installations. PS:- This is not working at the moment(without proxy as well). This used to work 2 months back nicely. Refer Bug Report
Thus based on your choice of installation, please go ahead and choose one of the methods above.
CTools-installer Link - https://github.com/pmalves/ctools-installer
CTools Individual Installers - http://www.webdetails.pt/ctools.html
Pentaho MarketPlace - http://ci.pentaho.com/ and choose marketplace 4.8 or 5.0 depending on your version.
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