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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

Password protecting your dashboard


In this recipe, we will look at a scenario that uses some basic login functionality for an Dashboard Design dashboard. Before you can use the actual functionality of the dashboard, a password has to be entered.

Getting ready

For this recipe you can use any dashboard you created before. We will use the dashboard we created in the previous recipes.

How to do it...

  1. Drag a rectangle component into the canvas and resize it so that it covers the whole dashboard.

  2. Go to the properties pane of the rectangle component and switch the Type setting from None to Solid. You can also change the color and the level of transparency here.

  3. The result should look like the following screenshot:

  4. Add a label component to the canvas and place it in the middle of the dashboard.

  5. Enter the following text: Please enter your password: . In the Layout menu of the Appearance tab, you can check the Show Fill option to show a background color for this component.

    The canvas should look like the following...