SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 The Complete Reference 3/E

Creating a Simple Dashboard

Creating a simple dashboard involves the following main steps:

• Planning the dashboard

• Populating the dashboard data

• Adding data display components

• Adding data selector components

• Applying a theme/color style

• Saving and exporting the dashboard

The following sections provide a quick overview of designing a very simple dashboard from start to finish. Chapters 24 through 27 go into much greater detail about all of the elements of dashboard design and development.

Planning the Dashboard

Dashboards can range from a simple page of multiple visualizations to a complex application. A dashboard needs to be designed to display all of the appropriate metrics, aggregated at the appropriate level of detail to provide ...