Cookbook Tweetaway Winners
I want to thank everyone who participated in the SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0 Cookbook Tweetaway contest over the last 2 weeks! Over 100 tweets have been sent.
Congrats to the 2 lucky tweeps who have won an eBook copy of the SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0 Cookbook! The winners are @rodri_m_d and @montoyainigo. We’ll be contacting you guys shortly to give you your copies of the Cookbook.
Have fun baking!
SAP BO Dashboards cookbook Tweetaway
Okay guys, it is time to give some stuff away. On behalf of Packt Publishing we can give away two eBook copies of the SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards cookbook we released a few weeks ago.
Joining this giveaway Tweetaway is easy: Just send out a tweet with a link to the SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards’ cookbook page on PacktPub.com in it. You can use the share buttons on the cookbook page itself, or just click this link. Retweeting other tweeps is also allowed and you can tweet as much as you want.
On monday 25th July we will pick the two winners and grant them access to their free eBooks. Good luck!
Baking with the SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards cookbook part 3
A few weeks ago the SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0 cookbook David Lai and I wrote was released by Packt Publishing. To give you an idea how the book is setup I am publishing some example recipes of this cookbook in a short series of posts here on this blog.
Part 1 contained two recipes from Chapter 2: Data Visualization, discussing Using the OHLC chart and candlestick chart and Sorting series.
Part 2 took a look at Chapter 6: Advanced Components, with the recipes Using the grid component and Creating a slide show.
Part 3 is the final post in this introduction series and gives some examples from Chapter &: Dashboard Look and Feel with the recipes Using color schemes and Sharing a color scheme.
You can find more information on the book here and order it at Packt Publishing (no shipping costs and also eBook version available) or at Amazon.com.
Using color schemes
Dashboard Design conveniently has a set of built-in color themes that developers can use to instantly change the look of their dashboard. Using color themes helps provide consistent coloring among your objects and allows you to change the colors for multiple objects at a time without having to go into the properties of each object to make the necessary changes.
GETTING READY
Have your set of objects that you want to change the colors for ready on the canvas. In this example we have the sales by region chart, a pie chart, and a set of underlying backgrounds that we want colors modified.
Baking with the SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards cookbook part 2
As you might know a few weeks ago the SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0 cookbook David Lai and I wrote was released by Packt Publishing. To give you an idea how the book is setup I am publishing some example recipes of this cookbook here on this blog.
Last week the first post in this short series contained two recipes from Chapter 2: Data Visualization, discussing Using the OHLC chart and candlestick chart and Sorting series.
Part 2 takes a look at Chapter 6: Advanced Components, with the recipes Using the grid component and Creating a slide show.
You can find more information on the book here and order it at Packt Publishing (no shipping costs and also eBook version available) or at Amazon.com.
Using the grid component
The grid component can display a table with data in your dashboard. Therefore it looks a bit like the list view and spreadsheet table components. There are a number of differences between these two sets of components, stated as follows:
- The list view and spreadsheet table components allow us to make data selections; the grid component does not.
- The grid component not only displays data, but its values can also be changed by the dashboard user.
- The grid component doesn’t have a header row.
- The grid component has the option to make use of alerts.
GETTING READY
Open a new dashboard design file and enter the values in the spreadsheet as shown in the following screenshot:
How to do it…
Baking with the SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards cookbook part 1
A few weeks ago the SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0 cookbook was released by Packt Publishing. To give you an idea how the book is setup I will put some example recipes of this cookbook here on this blog. This first post contains two recipes from Chapter 2 Data Visualization that discuss Using the OHLC chart and candlestick chart and Sorting series.
You can find more information on the book here and order it at Packt Publishing (no shipping costs and also eBook version available) or at Amazon.com.
Using the OHLC chart and candlestick chart
The OHLC chart and candlestick chart are both designed to show the movement of a stock price over time. OHLC stands for Open, High, Low, and Close. These four stock price values are illustrated for each time unit.
Both components work in exactly the same way, so you can use both the OHLC chart component and the candlestick chart component for this recipe. The only difference between them is the graphical visualization.
Getting ready
For this recipe, we need some historical stock data. Open your browser and go to http://www.nasdaq.com/ and look for historical quotes on the SAP AG stock.
Select a timeframe of one month and copy-paste the quotes to the spreadsheet of a new Dashboard Design file.
How to do it…
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