How to hide .CDA file in Pentaho CDE.

Hello Guys,

In this post I would like to explain How to hide .CDA file in Pentaho CDE.

It’s no use to the end user to see the data source in the tree view so edit:

Go to:  ../biserver-ce/pentaho-solutions/system/cda/plugin.xml

And comment the lines between:

<!–
<content-types>
…
</content-types>
//–>

For your reference the content type tag look like this:

<content-type type="cda" mime-type="text/html">
            <title>Data Access</title>
             <description>Community Data Access File</description>
            <icon-url>content/cda/resources/cdaFileType.png</icon-url>
            <meta-provider>pt.webdetails.cda.CdaFileMetaProvider</meta-provider>
              <operations>
                <operation>
                      <id>EDIT</id>
                    <perspective>cda.edit</perspective>
                </operation>
                <operation>
                      <id>RUN</id>
                </operation>
                <operation>
                      <id>NEWWINDOW</id>
                </operation>
              </operations>
        </content-type>

Hope this post helps someone and feel free to give comments and suggestion

Sumit Bansal