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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

Using color schemes


SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards conveniently has a set of built-in color themes that developers can use to instantly change the look of their dashboard. Using color themes helps provide consistent coloring among your objects and allows you to change the colors of multiple objects at a time, without having to go into the properties of each object to make any color changes.

Getting ready

Have a set of objects ready on the canvas that you want to make color changes to. In this example, we have the sales by region chart, a pie chart, and a set of backgrounds.

How to do it...

  1. Click on the Colors icon and make sure that Current Theme Colors is selected under the Built-in section. The backgrounds will be grey and the charts bluish.

  2. Click on the Colors icon again and select the Concourse color scheme.

How it works...

As you can see, the default color scheme initially looked kind of bland and the coloring for each series in the pie chart was very similar, making it tough to decipher between...

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