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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 the Panel Container


The Panel Container component is useful if a designer thinks that a set of item(s) is too large for the canvas and wants to be able to scroll the inside of the canvas. A good example would be a scrolling set of charts. Let's say real estate on the dashboard is an issue and we have many charts that need to be shown, but it is not mandatory to show all charts in one view. If we put them in a Panel Container, we can scroll through each chart, similar to a slideshow.

How to do it...

  1. Select the Panel Container from the Containers tab.

  2. Insert a set of charts (these can be any type of charts that you wish to insert) inside the Panel Container.

  3. Shrink the Panel Container so that it doesn't take up too much real estate on the dashboard. You can do this by taking your mouse to the edge of the panel and resizing from there.

How it works...

In our example, we were able to emulate a slideshow of charts. This is useful if all the charts do not need to be visible in one screen, and...

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