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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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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

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

Using direct query


Direct query is a new feature introduced in the SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform 4.0. This feature can be used to create a query based on a Universe and then use the query output in our dashboard. We can link it directly with a dashboard component, so we don't need Excel as an intermediate layer. We can also load it into Excel, and from there, we can deal with it in the same way as we did in the previous chapters. In this section, you will first learn how to create a query, and then you will learn how to link it with your dashboard components and current Excel model.

Tip

Direct query can use only the .UNX Universe, which was developed by the SAP BO Information Design Tool. You can refer to my first book, Creating Universes with SAP BusinessObjects, for more information about creating Universes.

Before we start using direct query, let's prepare the dashboard file for this chapter:

  1. Navigate to the Code sample folder from your PC.

  2. Open the Chapter8.xlf file dashboard...

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