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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

Exporting to SWF, PPT, PDF, and other file types


After developing a visual model in SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards, we will need to somehow share it with users. We want to put it into a format that everyone can see on their machines. The simplest way is to export it to a standard SWF file.

One of the great features SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards has is the ability to embed dashboards into different Microsoft Office file formats. For example, a presenter could have an MS PowerPoint deck, and in the middle of the presentation, have a working dashboard that presents an important set of data values to the audience. Another example could be an executive level user who is viewing an MS Word document created by an analyst. The analyst could create a written document in MS Word and then embed a working dashboard with the most updated data to present important data values to the executive level user.

You can choose to embed a dashboard in the following file types:

  • MS PowerPoint (.pptx)

  • MS Word (.docx...

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