In this chapter, you learned how to export our dashboard project into another format that can be shared offline, such as PDF, SharePoint, and SWF file. The exporting option is only valid for prototype sharing and once you've linked your dashboard to the data, you'll need to publish it to make it accessible for the targeted users. You also learned how to publish our dashboard into the SAP BO repository in desktop, mobile, and desktop and mobile formats. Finally, you learned how to import our dashboard file from the SAP BO repository to be able to open the Dashboard Object file and make the required modifications or changes.

In the next chapter, you will learn how to connect our dashboard with external data sources, such as web services, direct query, and Live Office. We've used static data in all our examples so far, but this is not what happens in real-life projects. We need to connect our dashboard to a data source, and we should be able to refresh our data at run time without the...