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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 Tab Set container


The best analogy to a Tab Set would be the tabs that you see in Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox. Before the advent of tabs, we would have multiple windows of Internet Explorer open, which was very cumbersome. With tabs we can flip through the different pages that we have opened very easily. With the Tab Set container, we can separate different pages within the dashboard. This allows us to flip through pages that are independent of each other but related to the same topic, without having to reload separate dashboards or set dynamic visibility for each page.

How to do it...

  1. Select the Tab Set container from the Containers tab.

  2. In the Properties window of the canvas, you can rename the tab. In our example we named the first tab as Sales.

  3. To add a new tab, press the + button on the top left-hand side of the canvas. It will then pop up a window that lets you name your tab. In our example, we named the second tab Trend Analysis, as shown in the following screenshot...

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