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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

Using alerts in a Scorecard


With the Scorecard component, we can easily create scorecard KPIs with the ability to insert a user-desired alert / trending icon in any column of the scorecard.

In this recipe, we will go through an example of using the Scorecard component to show a table of values, a threshold indicator that will determine whether the current month's sales meet the threshold or not, and a trend indicator that shows whether the current month's sales have risen/fallen compared to the previous month's sales.

Getting ready

Set up your data as follows. We have a list of regions, current month sales, previous month sales, and sales threshold. Note that the Month to Month Change column is highlighted because it can either come from the external data source or it could be calculated in the Excel spreadsheet.

How to do it...

  1. Select the Scorecard selector from the Selectors category of the Components window and drag it onto the canvas.

  2. Bind the Scorecard component to the spreadsheet data prepared...