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SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.1 Cookbook

You're reading from   SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.1 Cookbook Over 100 simple and incredibly effective recipes to help transform your static business data into exciting dashboards filled with dynamic charts and graphics

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784391959
Length 452 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Staying in Control FREE CHAPTER 2. Data Visualization 3. From a Static to an Interactive Dashboard 4. Dynamic Visibility 5. Using Alerts 6. Advanced Components 7. Dashboard Look and Feel 8. Dashboard Data Connectivity 9. Exporting and Publishing 10. Top Third-party Add-ons 11. Performance Tuning 12. Increasing Productivity A. Real-world Dashboard Case Studies B. Additional Resources – Supported Excel Functions and System/Software Requirements C. The Future of Dashboarding with SAP Design Studio Index

Using a combination chart


With the combination chart you can use both columns and lines to visualize data in one single chart.

Getting ready

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

In the Number section of the Home tab of the toolbar, use the % option to convert the market share values into percentages:

How to do it...

  1. Drag a Combination Chart component to the canvas.

  2. Bind the Chart field to cell A1 and the Subtitle field to cell B2.

  3. Bind the By Range field to the spreadsheet range from A4 to E6.

  4. Select By Series and select the Market share series. Select the option to Plot Series On: Secondary Axis:

  5. As you can see now, both axes are populated with values:

How it works...

After binding the data to the component, we adjusted the Market share series to plot its data on the secondary axis. After doing this, a second y-axis appeared on the right-hand side of the chart, labeled with percentages.

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