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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

Selecting calendar dates


A calendar is a common component found in dashboards if a user is interested in seeing values on a particular day. This is great for going back in history to see past performance.

In this example, we will work with one month of data for September 2010, and the chart will change according to what the user selects on the calendar.

Getting ready

The portion of the spreadsheet containing the chart data will need to be set up in the following fashion. Each row of chart data will belong to a selectable day in the calendar. In this example, each row contains region sales data for a particular date.

How to do it...

  1. Drag a Calendar component from the Other section of the Components window onto the canvas.

  2. In the calendar properties, select Date as the Insertion Type and bind the Destination to the cell G3 of the spreadsheet, as shown in the following screenshot:

  3. Now, we will need to take the value from the destination date cell G3 in step 2 to find the corresponding row data from...