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SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.1 Cookbook

By : David Lai
Book Image

SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.1 Cookbook

By: David Lai

Overview of this book

If you are a developer with a good command and knowledge of creating dashboards, but are not yet an advanced user of SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards, then this is the perfect book for you. Prerequisites include a good working knowledge of Microsoft Excel as well as knowledge of basic dashboard practices.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Index

Using a bullet chart

A bullet chart is in fact a bar or column chart with a lot of extra options. It can serve as a replacement for gauges and meters. Besides visualizing a data point as bar and column charts do, a bullet chart is able to show a target and two or more qualitative ranges. These ranges can indicate whether a value can be considered bad, satisfactory, good, and so on.

This recipe will show you how to configure a bullet chart. SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards has two bullet chart components: horizontal and vertical. Both components have exactly the same configuration options and work in the same manner. This recipe will use the horizontal bullet chart.

Getting ready

Open a new file in SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards and enter the data into the spreadsheet, as shown in the following screenshot:

Getting ready

How to do it...

  1. Drag a Horizontal Bullet Chart component into the canvas.
  2. Bind the By Range field to the spreadsheet range from A4 to E7:
    How to do it...
  3. Also bind the Chart field in the Titles section to spreadsheet...