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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

Building a pop-up screen


This recipe will show how a pop-up screen can be created within a dashboard. Such a pop-up screen can, for example, be used to provide additional information to the contents of the dashboard. In this recipe, the pop-up screen can be activated and deactivated by clicking on buttons.

Getting ready

No specific preparation is needed for this recipe. You can use any dashboard you already created or just start with an empty one. In this example, we will use the dashboard from the previous recipe.

How to do it...

  1. Drag a background component into the canvas.

  2. Drag the label component on top of the background component and enter some text.

  3. Now drag a push button component into the canvas and position it in the upper right-hand side corner of the background component. Rename its label into Close. We will use this button to close the pop-up screen.

  4. Set up the spreadsheet: Enter value 1 in cell E1 and value 0 in cell E2.

  5. Bind the Source Data field of the push button component properties...