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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

Building a pop-up screen

This recipe will show how a pop-up screen can be created within a dashboard. Such a pop-up screen can, for example, be used to provide additional information related to the content of the dashboard. In this recipe, the pop-up screen can be activated and deactivated by clicking on buttons.

Getting ready

No specific preparation is needed for this recipe. You can use any dashboard you already created or just start with an empty one. In this example, we will use the dashboard from the previous recipe.

How to do it...

  1. Drag a Background component into the canvas from the Art and Backgrounds category.
    How to do it...
  2. Drag the Label component from the Text category, place it on top of the Background component, and enter some text:
    How to do it...
  3. Now, drag a Push Button component from the Selectors category into the canvas and position it in the upper right-hand side corner of the Background component. Rename its label as Close. We will use this button to close the pop-up screen:
    How to do it...
  4. Set up the spreadsheet. Enter...