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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

Sharing a color scheme


Developers may want to customize a dashboard's charts and objects to follow a company's coloring guidelines. Most likely, the company's coloring guidelines will not match any of the built-in coloring schemes, so we'll need a way to create a coloring scheme that we can re-use every time a new dashboard is built for the same company.

Getting ready

You must be able to view hidden files and folders in the c:\Documents and Settings\your_user_id folder. If you are a Windows Vista or Windows 7 user, you will need to be able to view hidden files and folders in c:\Users\your_user_id.

How to do it...

  1. Click on the colors icon and select the Create New Color Scheme at the bottom of the list.

  2. Change the background color to whatever color you want by clicking on the colored square.

  3. Click on the Charts tab and change the Series color to something other than the default color.

  4. Click the Save button when you are finished.

  5. Your color scheme has now been saved and you can now transfer it to...