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SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio (a.k.a. ZEN) Leave a comment
Dashboards on BusinessObjects Mobile BI 4.4 Leave a comment
Finally has arrived: BusinessObjects Mobile BI 4.4
wich allows to access to Dashboards on Mobile device and so on IPad and Android Tablet and phones.
Dashboard for SAP BI Mobile supported features:
Connectivity:
- through Query Panel
- on Universes
- on Query Bex (SAP BW)
- on Hana Universes
- Labels
- Images component
- Combo box
- Label based Menu
- Radio button
- Scorecard
- List View
- Icons
- Slider
- Progress Bar
- Toggle button
- Push button
- Column Chart
- Bar Chart
- Pie Chart
- Line Chart
- Combination Chart
- Stacked Bar Chart
- Stacked Column Chart
- Gauge
- Tab Set
- Canvass Container
- Component Groups
Please Note that at the moment Prompt component is not available.
You will find not compatible components and features on the Compatibility Panel.
Keep following the blog for further details and update!
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How to install live office XI 3.1 with Office 2010 Leave a comment
Error: Microsoft Office XP and later applicatations: Excel, Word, Outlook or PowerPoint must be pre-installed.
Environment
BO XI 3.1 SP 4
Xcelsius 2008 SP 4
Live Office XI 3.1 SP 4
If you need to install Live Office on a pc with Office 2010 already installed you will get the following warning:
In can bypass this error with a
a workaround wich aims to avoid that MS installer checks if Office is installed.
In order to do so you need an MSI editor, we suggest
http://www.instedit.com/
So follow these steps:
Create a copy of Lifeoffice.msi file located in the Package folder.
Open with InstEd the Lifeoffice.msi file and select the “Tables” tab and click on LaunchCondition;
Then delete the row which refers to Office ( “EXCELl10 OR OUTLOOK10″)
and save the file.
Then run this modified Lifeoffice.msi,
previous error will not appear any more and you will accomplish your installation!
Please note that this Workaround can be used with Xcelsius.msi file when installing Xcelsius 2008 SP 3 with Office 2010.
Add an opendoc link in a SAP Dashboards Leave a comment
How to add a link in a dashboard in order to open a document in SAP BI 4 platform
First of all I wish you all HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Then select button Property tab
assign a name to button label
and then insert the appropriate URL
in the following format
http://BI4Servername:8080/BOE/OpenDocument/opendoc/openDocument.jsp?sIDType=CUID&iDocID=…..
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How to Improve Dashboard performances – Decalogue Leave a comment
Improving SAP BO Dashboard performances Decalogue
Sap BO Dashboards 4.0 – Xcelsius 2008
World Sales Dashboard template Leave a comment
Let’s see how create a simple Sales Dashboard which has as main component the
Accordion menu
which allows to have a multiple level hierarchical filtering.
This means that you can first select the top level hierarchy dimension in our case the ‘Country’ and then you can choose one of the ‘Products’ sold in the selected country:
The columns chart shows the sales for that kind of bike in the months of the year.
In the following image you will see how data changed when you select an other kind of product
Below you can see how create the Excel file in order to create this dashboard.
In the yellow are will be drilled the months sale data after selecting the two hierarchical dimensions.
Under this line there are different tables for each Country that can be selected which contains sales data per product for each months.
Below is detailed how to set the Accordion Menu
You can find the related files on SAP COMMUNITY NETWORK,
in the following link another example with related files:
For more Dashboards templates and example:
Xcelsius Dashboard template files Leave a comment
In order to learn how to create a Transportation dashboard
you can study this dashboard example.
Here you can choose between ‘Company Total’ page and ‘Top 5 What if analysis’ pages.
Let’s see the first page ‘Company Total’:
On the right you can select six labels which corresponds to different analysis:
ABC 2006
Acme 2006
XYX 2006
Total 2006
Total 2005
Same week 2005.
All the tabs acts have the same functions.
Besides selecting one of the Top ten customer
you will see the drill of related data in the bottom bar charts for each analysis type,
follows the image about selecting the 7th customer:
The second page is about ‘Top 5 What if analysis’
On the left panel,
you can see the What if analysis that is you will see all the values and gauges changing on moving the indicator on the upper graduated bar.
Follows the Excel sheet images that provide data to the dashboard:
TOP 200 sheet (Company Total data provider):
TOP 10 lookup sheet
Account detail sheet
In order to download this dashboard template ( XLF, swf and .xls) you can open the following link:
Others Dashboards template
XCELSIUS SALES DASHBOARD TEMPLATE
World Sales Dashboard template
For general information see also: