SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0 Cookbook

Making the spreadsheet more readable with colors

To make clear what the exact purpose of a cell is we need a set of guidelines to follow.

Getting ready

You need a basic Dashboard Design dashboard containing a few components in the canvas with some bindings to the data model in the spreadsheet.

How to do it...

1. Go to your data model in the spreadsheet.
2. Select the cell(s) you want to color.
3. Click on the Fill Color button and select the desired color. You can find this button in the Font section of the Home tab.
4. Color the cells that have dynamic visibility values in orange.
   
5. Color the cells with input values from canvas components yellow. In the following ...