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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

Using the tab set container


The best analogy to a tab set would be the tabs that you see in Internet Explorer and Firefox. Before the advent of tabs, we would have multiple windows of Internet Explorers open, which was very cumbersome. With tabs we are able to flip through the different pages that you have opened very easily. Before Xcelsius 2008, developers who wanted to work with multiple pages on one dashboard needed to do a lot of work with dynamic visibility. With the tab set container, we are able to separate different pages within the dashboard very easily. This allows us to flip through pages that are independent of each other but related to the same topic without having to reload separate dashboards or set dynamic visibility for each page.

How to do it...

  1. Select the Tab Set Container from the Containers tab.

  2. In the Properties window of the canvas, you can rename the tab. In our example we named the first tab as Sales.

  3. To add a new tab, press the + button on the top left-hand side of...