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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

Making selections from a custom image (push button and image component)


As shown in the recipe Adding a MacOSX looking dock to your dashboard, we can use a Fisheye selector menu to emulate a program dock-type style when selecting items. However, there may be cases where we may want images in different locations that we can click on to perform different actions.

In this recipe, we will go through an example on how to use a push button combined with an image component to create a clickable image that can perform actions when clicked on.

How to do it...

  1. Drag an Image Component from the Arts and Backgrounds section of the Components window onto the canvas.

  2. Open up the image properties window and click on the Import button. Select the image from your computer that you want to show.

  3. Drag a Push Button object from the Selectors section of the Components window and put it on top of the image. Then resize the Push Button so that it is the same size as the image. To make the button the same size as the...