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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

Using other third-party plugins

In this section, we will discuss the following third-party plugins:

  • Dash printer
  • Micro chart

Using a dash printer

Dash printer is a plugin developed by Data Savvy. It enables the end user to print their dashboard. This plugin will help you select an area to print, annotate, and then share flexibly, as you can see in the following screenshot:

Using a dash printer

You can register and download it from the Products section at http://datasavvytools.com/. After you've downloaded the plugin, you can install it in exactly the same way we installed the CMap plugin.

Let's create a side example to learn how to use this plugin. Make sure that you've installed the plugin before you continue reading:

  1. Navigate to the Data Savvy Tools category under the Component panel.
  2. Then, we drag and drop Dashboard Printer onto our Side2 tab canvas under the Current tab set.
    Using a dash printer
  3. Click on the Preview button and then on the Print icon.
  4. Select the area that you want to print, and then click on Preview (this...
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