Learning SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards

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Learning SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards

By : Taha Mahmoud

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Learning SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards

By: Taha Mahmoud

Overview of this book

Learning SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards

Learning SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards

Credits

About the Author

About the Author

About the Reviewers

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

Free Chapter

Getting Started with SAP BO Dashboards

Getting Started with SAP BO Dashboards

Introduction to SAP BO Dashboards

Installing SAP BO Dashboards

Exploring SAP BO Dashboards' capabilities

Getting to know the SAP BO Dashboards interface

Understanding the Dashboard Creation Process

Understanding the Dashboard Creation Process

Phases in the project

Determining the needs

Dashboard creation process

Preparing the dashboard workspace

UI Components

Before we start

Adding our first chart component (pie chart)

Introducing other chart types

Adding a single-value component to our dashboard

Using Maps and Other Components

Using Maps and Other Components

Using other SAP BO Dashboard components

Using other third-party plugins

Interactive Analysis with Dashboards

Interactive Analysis with Dashboards

Using traditional selectors

Displaying tabular data

Using advanced menus

Using other selectors

Using third-party selectors

Advanced Interactive Analysis with Dashboards

Advanced Interactive Analysis with Dashboards

Using the dynamic visibility feature

Grouping components

Using Containers

Using the drill-down (Insertion) feature

Linking a dashboard to a Webi or Crystal report document

Styling Up

Using text dashboard components

Dealing with colors and themes

Using art and background components

Formatting the dashboard components

Exporting, Publishing, and Importing Dashboards

Exporting, Publishing, and Importing Dashboards

Exporting the dashboards file

Publishing dashboards

Importing dashboards

Retrieving External Data Sources

Retrieving External Data Sources

Using direct query

Using web services

Using Live Office

Managing Dashboard Security

Managing Dashboard Security

Understanding the SAP BusinessObjects security model

Applying object level security

Applying application level security

Applying row level security

Applying security best practices

Creating Mobile Dashboards

Creating Mobile Dashboards

Creating dashboards for smart devices

Developing a mobile SAP BO Dashboard

Publishing mobile dashboards

Accessing and using mobile dashboards

Introducing the main features of the SAP BI application

References

Supported excel functions

List of Built-in maps

Supported mobile components and connections

Index

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Exporting the dashboards file

The exporting dashboards process will generate a SWF flash file or HTML5 file and save it in the selected export format. We can export our dashboard in one of the following formats:

Flash (SWF)…
AIR…
HTML…
PDF…
PowerPoint Slide…
Outlook…
Word…
Note
Previewing a dashboard will export a temporary Flash or HTML5 file based on the preview method (for desktops or for mobiles) that will be used for preview purposes, then it will be ignored after closing the preview mode. So previewing generation is just a temporary export.

We can access the Export menu submenu from the file menu, as you can see in the following screenshot:

Let's execute the following steps to export our dashboard to a PDF file:

Open our last version of the eFashion dashboard project.
Navigate to File | Export | PDF…
Type eFashion-PDF in the file name.

We can open the generated PDF and see a blank PDF file that contains only one page, which displays the Flash component generated from our dashboard...