Chapter 9. Exporting and Publishing

In this chapter, we will cover:

  • Exporting to a standard SWF, PPT, PDF, and so on
  • Exporting to SAP Business Objects Enterprise
  • Publishing to SAP BW
  • Dashboard Builder/Performance Management
  • Building widgets (Adobe AIR)

Introduction

After building your dashboard to be the way you like it, you will need to turn it into a format that everyone is able to view on their computers. This is when the developers will export and publish their dashboard.

First, the visual model is compiled to a SWF file format. Compiling to a SWF file format ensures that the dashboard plays smoothly on different screen sizes and across different platforms. It also ensures that the users aren't given huge 10+ megabyte files.

After compilation of the ...

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