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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

Using bindable colors to control alert coloring from a central location


With the advent of the option to dynamically bind colors to different parts of a component, we can push alerting to another level. For example, we may have a sales chart for a set of regions and may want to signal whether something is critically wrong. Instead of having a bunch of green and red bars that may look like a Christmas tree, we can set the chart background color to red if one of the values has reached a critical point. In this scenario, a user will be drawn to the chart right away, as it will be ringing alarm bells.

Getting ready

Be sure to have your chart data ready, shown as follows. In this recipe, we will have a set of sales data for each region. You may use the setup from the previous recipe, Adding alerts to a column chart, to help save you time.

How to do it...

  1. Drag a Column Chart from the Charts section of the Components window onto the canvas.

  2. Bind the chart data to the data set up in the Getting ready...