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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

Dealing with colors and themes

In this section, you will learn how to deal with colors, and control the appearance of dashboard components. We will start with how we can change the colors of a selected component in the first place. Then we will see how to bind it to predefined color codes in the Excel model. After that, you will learn how to change the entire color scheme by selecting one of the predefined color schemes, or by creating your own customized color scheme. Finally, we will talk about themes, and how we can use them along with the color theme.

Using the Appearance tab

We can find any property related to appearance, such as layout, color, and text. We can find this tab under almost every dashboard component's properties, which can be accessed from the Properties panel. Here, we will try to configure the appearance properties of the Sales and Quantity by Product combined chart:

  1. Select the Sales and Quantity by Product combination chart and navigate to the Properties panel.
  2. Select...
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