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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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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

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

Displaying alerts of different thresholds on a map


The previous recipe was a very useful demonstration of how to set up alerts on a Map component. However, the threshold values of all provinces were the same. In reality, this may not be the case for metrics such as sales. For example, a province such as Nunavut is much smaller than Ontario, and thus should not have the same sales threshold as Ontario.

Getting ready

Insert a Canada by province component into the canvas and bind data to the map. We will use the data setup from the Displaying alerts on a map recipe to select the data of an area or country.

Tip

Please refer to the first screenshot in the introductory section of the recipe Making alert ranges dynamic to understand how the data should look.

You may also refer to the data setup in the source file, Displaying alerts of different thresholds.xlf.

How to do it...

  1. To the right-hand side of the Sales column (column B), add the target thresholds for each province. The larger provinces will have...

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