After building your dashboard to be the way you like it, you will need to turn it into a format that everyone is able to view on their computers. This is when the developers will export and publish their dashboard.
First, the visual model is compiled to a SWF file format. Compiling to a SWF file format ensures that the dashboard plays smoothly on different screen sizes and across different platforms. It also ensures that the users aren't given huge 10+ megabyte files.
After compilation of the visual model to a SWF file, developers can then publish it to a format of their choice. The following are the available choices—Flash (SWF), AIR, SAP BusinessObjects Platform, HTML, PDF, PPT, Outlook, and Word.
Once publishing is complete, the dashboard is ready to share!