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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 FREE CHAPTER 2. Understanding the Dashboard Creation Process 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

Using Containers


Like the group function, containers are also used to group dashboard components together. The major difference between these two is in the freedom of movement of components inside the group. The grouping functionality is more of a design time, and containers are runtime. We have two types of containers that we will be discussing in this section:

  • Panel Container

  • Canvas Container

  • Tab Set

We can find the containers under the Container category in the Components panel, as shown in the following screenshot:

Using Panel Container

The Panel Container component can be used to hold multiple dashboard components. It contains a header and a frame, as you can see in this screenshot:

Panel containers can be used in any of the following situations:

  • If you want another level of information to be displayed when the dashboard user executes a specific action; for example, to click on a product to display the product analysis panel containers that contain product-related KPIs.

  • If you don't have...

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