{"id":1416,"date":"2011-11-21T00:01:03","date_gmt":"2011-11-20T22:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hackingsap.com\/blog\/?p=1416"},"modified":"2011-12-18T15:02:23","modified_gmt":"2011-12-18T13:02:23","slug":"intelligent-printing-in-sap-bo-dashboards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hackingsap.com\/blog\/intelligent-printing-in-sap-bo-dashboards","title":{"rendered":"Intelligent printing in SAP BO Dashboards"},"content":{"rendered":"

The\u00a0Print button<\/strong> component in SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0 (Xcelsius) has a pretty basic functionality: It prints your complete dashboard; it’s all-or-nothing. The only setting you can make is whether the dashboard should be scaled to fit the page or to a certain percentage. After clicking this print button the standard Windows print window appears where you can select a printer and start printing. So yeah, that’s pretty basic stuff.<\/p>\n

I want to share a quick preview of the upcoming Dash Printer Add-on<\/strong> for SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards by Data Savvy Tools<\/strong>, <\/strong>which seems to be what the Print button should have looked like. With this add-on the dashboard user is free to select the exact output he wants to get printed. So if only a certain chart or table of the dashboard should be printed, we now can select this area, snap a picture of it and print it. I like the queueing features which lets you snap multiple screenshots before the actual printing starts. You can change the print order and set some layout and formatting options.<\/p>\n

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There is also a feature that lets you change the state of the dashboards without leaving the selection mode by holding the CTRL-key. On my Mac this gives a problem, because CTRL-click still is recognized as right-clicking the mouse. This is one of the things left from the one-buttoned mouse era the Mac was in until some years ago. Luckily the Mac Command-key does the same trick.<\/p>\n

Try this handy add-on below or check the Data Savvy Tools website<\/a> for more info. You can also watch a video below which demonstrates all features for you.<\/p>\n

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