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SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.1 Cookbook

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SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.1 Cookbook

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (26 chapters)
SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.1 Cookbook
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Acknowledgments
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 a dashboard created with SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards. 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 earlier. We will use the dashboard we created in the previous recipes.

How to do it...

  1. Drag a Rectangle component found in the Art and Backgrounds area 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 Fill Type setting from None to Solid. You can also change the color and the level of transparency here:

  3. The result should look like what is shown in the following screenshot:

  4. Add a Label component from the Selectors area to the canvas and place it in the middle of the dashboard.

  5. Enter Please enter your password: in the Layout menu of the Appearance tab. You can check the Show Fill...