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Learning SAP Business Objects Dashboards

You're reading from   Learning SAP Business Objects Dashboards Create professional, stunning, and interactive visual dashboards for both desktop and mobile devices

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2015
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ISBN-13 9781785286629
Length 330 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Taha Mahmoud Taha Mahmoud
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Preface 1. Getting Started with SAP BO Dashboards 2. Understanding the Dashboard Creation Process FREE CHAPTER 3. UI Components 4. Using Maps and Other Components 5. Interactive Analysis with Dashboards 6. Advanced Interactive Analysis with Dashboards 7. Styling Up 8. Exporting, Publishing, and Importing Dashboards 9. Retrieving External Data Sources 10. Managing Dashboard Security 11. Creating Mobile Dashboards A. References Index

Grouping components


Grouping components is used to group multiple dashboard components to make it easier to move and control them. Usually, the grouped components are already configured, and all of their properties are already set. We can use a group of components to perform any of the following actions:

  • Move them together on the canvas

  • Control dynamic visibility for the entire group, instead of configuring it for each dashboard component inside the group

  • Group dashboard components in an object browser and lock, show, and hide the entire group, instead of doing this for each dashboard component member

Now let's see how to use this feature:

  1. Navigate to Object Browser.

  2. Hold down Ctrl and select the following items:

    • The Sales by Product pie chart

    • The Sales and Quantity by Product combination chart

    • Radio Button 1

  3. Right-click and select Group from the menu that opens.

    You can see these steps marked here:

    The created group is shown in the Object Browser panel like this:

    You can see the properties of the...

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