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SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0 Cookbook

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SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0 Cookbook

Overview of this book

Xcelsius 2008 was recently included in SAP’s BusinessObjects 4.0 family, rebranding “Xcelsius Enterprise” as “SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0”. With features like flexible design and what-if scenarios, the powerful dashboarding software allows enterprises to make business decisions at a glance, and this book allows you to go far beyond the basics of these techniques. This cookbook full of practical and applicable recipes will enable you to use the full latest capabilities of Dashboard Design to visually transform your business data. A wide range of recipes will equip you with the knowledge and confidence to perform tasks like configuring charts, creating drill- downs, making component colors dynamic, using alerts in maps, building pop-up screens, setting up What-If scenarios, and many more.The recipes begin by covering best practices for using the Dashboard Design spreadsheet, the data-model, and the connection with the components on the canvas, later moving on to some from-the-trenches tricks for using Excel within Dashboard Design. The book then guides you through the exploration of various data visualization components and dashboard interactivity, as well as offering recipes on using alerts, dashboard connectivity, and making the most of the aesthetics of the dashboard. Finally, the recipes conclude by considering the most important add-ons available for Dashboard Design and enabling you to perform relevant and useful tasks straight away.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0 Cookbook
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
Acknowledgement
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Switching between different charts


This recipe will show you how to create a dashboard with the possibility to switch between two charts.

Getting ready

Open a new Dashboard Design file and drag two different chart components (for example, a line chart and a pie chart component) to the empty canvas. Drag the label-based menu component to the canvas, as well.

How to do it...

  1. Click on the line chart component and go to the Behavior tab of its properties pane. At the bottom of the pane, you will see a section called Dynamic Visibility.

  2. Bind the Status field to spreadsheet cell B1.

  3. Put the value 1 in the Key field.

  4. Click on the pie chart component and go to the Behavior tab.

  5. Here you also bind the Status field to cell B1.

  6. In the Key field, you fill in the value 2.

  7. Go to the spreadsheet and type Status: in cell A1 and put value 1 in cell B1.

  8. Now click on the label-based menu component and go to the General tab of its properties pane.

  9. To set the labels, click on the button on the extreme right-hand side.

  10. Ente...