Dashboards 4.0 Cookbook

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1 SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0 Cookbook Over 90 simple and incredibly effective recipes for transforming your business data into exciting dashboards with SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0 Xcelsius Xavier Hacking David Lai professional expertise distilled PUBLISHING BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI

2 Preface 1 Chapter 1: Staying in Control Introduction 7 Making the spreadsheet more readable with colors 8 Making the spreadsheet more readable with comments 9 Making the spreadsheet more readable using borders 11 Using named ranges 13 Selecting all worksheet cells with one click 15 Copying the formatting of one cell to another cell or range 16 Debugging your spreadsheets 18 Navigation between worksheets 20 Grouping the canvas components 21 Chapter 2: Data Visualization 25 Introduction 26 Adding a line chart to your dashboard 26 Using the bullet chart 32 Using sparkllnes 37 Using the combination chart 40 Using the pie chart 42 Using the XY chart 44 Using the bubble chart 45 Using the radar chart 47 Using the OHLC chart and candlestick chart 48 Sorting series 52 Zooming in on charts 53 Scaling the y-axls 55 Using the tree map 57 Showing a trend without a chart 59 JL

3 Displaying raw data 60 Illustrating single values 62 Chapter 3: From a Static to an Interactive Dashboard 65 Introduction 66 Drilling down from a chart 66 Selecting your data from a list 68 Using the Filter Selector component for hierarchies 71 Alternative hierarchy selection method 73 Using Using maps to select data of an area or country 78 Adding a MacOSX loading dock to your dashboard 82 Resetting your data (reset button) 86 Filtered Rows 76 Making selections from a custom image (push button and image component) 87 Inputting data values 90 Using Play Selector/Play Control 94 Opening up a Web Intelligence report using dashboard parameters 97 Selecting calendar dates 101 Using sliders to create a what-if scenario 105 Chapter 4: Dynamic Visibility 109 Introduction 109 Switching between different charts 109 Building a pop-up screen 113 Creating a mouse-over help text pop-up 116 Password protecting your dashboard 121 Chapter 5: Using Alerts 125 Introduction 125 Adding alerts to a column chart 125 Using alerts in a gauge 128 Making alert ranges dynamic 131 Displaying alerts on a map 136 Displaying alerts of different thresholds on a map 139 Using blndable colors to control alert coloring from a central location 141 Using alerts in a scorecard 144 Chapter 6: Advanced Components 151 Introduction 151 Printing your dashboard 152 Grouping and organizing components with the canvas container 153 Using dashboard scenarios 155 Using the grid component 157 -DD

4 Creating a slide show 159 Using the panel set component 161 Using the history component 165 Data insertion with the Source data component 167 Analyzing trends 170 Chapter 7: Dashboard Look and Feel 173 Introduction 173 Changing the look of a chart 174 Adding a background to your dashboard 176 Using color schemes 179 Sharing a color scheme 181 Working with themes 184 Making component colors dynamic 186 Using the panel container 190 Using the tab set container 192 Making tables look pretty 194 Smart use of quadrants 196 Chapter 8: Dashboard Connectivity 199 Introduction 199 Creating a news ticker with Excel XML Maps 200 Using Query as a WebService (QaaWS) 206 Using Live Office connection 213 Con necti ng to SAP BW 218 Using Universe queries 224 Passing values from dashboard to dashboard with Flash Variables 229 Accessing dashboards with live data outside of Infoview using CELogonToken 234 Chapter 9: Exporting and Publishing 241 Introduction 241 Exporting to a standard SWF, PPT, PDF, and so on 242 Exporting to SAP Business Objects Enterprise 244 Publishing to SAP BW 246 Housing your dashboard in Dashboard Builder 248 Creating Adobe Air Applets from Dashboard Design dashboard 253 Chapter 10: Top Third-Party Add-ons 257 Introduction 257 Managing add-ons in Dashboard Design 258 Connecting to CSV-files with the CSV-connector 260 Integrating Google Maps with the GMaps plugin 265 Connecting to Salesforce.com with DashConn 274 [HQ-

5 Table of Contents Transferring data between dashboards with Data Sharer 280 Presenting micro charts in a tree grid 283 Integrating Web Intelligence with Antivia XWIS 289 Appendix A: Real World Dashboard Case Studies 299 What-if scenario: mortgage calculator 299 Sales/profit dashboard example 306 Appendix B: Additional Resources Supported Excel Functions and System/Software Requirements 317 Online resources 317 Supported Excel functions 318 System and software requirements 320 Index 323 -Q7}