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1 year ago ::
Jan 24, 2012 - 1:39PM
#41
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The panelists are just wrapping up a few final posts...then we'll be wrapping up shortly thereafter. Thanks!
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1 year ago ::
Jan 24, 2012 - 1:42PM
#42
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Hi Gurus,
Do you know how an end-user can send directly a snapshot (pdf or ppt) from a dashboard into email (not the whole dashbaord as flash file).
Thanks
Dragos Oprisan
Hi Dragos
There isn't a direct way to perform this action. The best way to handle this is to generate the PDF or PPT inside of the Dashboards application and then attach it to your email.
Thanks for your question!
Chris
@chickman72
Chris,
Thanks, do you mean to attach it manualy or use a special script to attach ?
Are there any SDk tools that could be used to help on this ?
Thanks
Dragos
It would be a manual attachment. No scripts are available to perform this type of functionality. The SDK covers the creation of new functionality with the Dashboards application. A lot of companies (Centigon, Antivia et. al.) are creating new components every day. You have the ability to build your own functionality using the Dashboards SDK. The SDK is available with the custom installation of Dashboards. Regards, Chris
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1 year ago ::
Jan 24, 2012 - 1:43PM
#43
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Thank you again to Chris Hickman and Emily Mui! For additional dashboard information, the BI Forum archives past Q&As on BI and BOBJ. We'll continue to update you on future Q&As. If you have a specific technical BI question, you can also post your own question for the entire community by selecting "New Thread" in the BI Forum. I look forward to seeing you all at BI 2012 in Las Vegas, and thanks again for a great discussion!
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1 year ago ::
Jan 25, 2012 - 12:18PM
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Can you confirm the process for publishing dashboards to users via the BI launch pad, where the dashboard is fed from BW data with a BICS data connection.
The process does not seem as simple as publishing say a Crystal report with a BW BICS data connector.
Would be keen to understand if there any user or technical issues that I should be aware of.
Thanks
Phil
Hi Phil, Not may great options here. At one client we created a web page (standard html) with a couple of buttons that provided links to the dashbaords. The web page was added to the public folders so that the dashbaords could be launched from BI- 4.0 and seen. But this still does not allow you to add them to BI workspaces and also does not help much with the search feature in BI 4.0. However, I know that SAP plans to address the Xcelsius in the next release of BI....
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1 year ago ::
Jan 25, 2012 - 12:24PM
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Hi Emily -- I was talking to a consultant a few weeks back about data volume overload in dashboards. What are you feelings on having too much data, and how do you avert that?
Thanks...Scott
Hi Scott, I reccomend that my developers do not exceed 500 rows in the result set. However, that is not a 'hard rule'. There are times when the record length (number of fields in each row) and the data type (numbers vs. text) makes a difference as well. I.e. 800 rows with two columns of numbers that are each are 4 digits long, performs very differently that a result set that is 500 rows with 15 columns of text that each have 80 characters. So the consulting answer applied: "it depends". But as a rule-of-thumb we don't like seeing data sets over 500 rows, and if it exceeds 1,000 rows, we normally don't allow that.. Berg
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1 year ago ::
Jan 25, 2012 - 12:28PM
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Hello Gurus,
Good Afternoon. Couple of questions.
1. When building dashboards, are there any recommended chart types to be used for different reporting areas (Finance, Sales, Manufacturing, Retail etc.). If not, Is it always the business that decides what kind of charts to use in a dashboard? It's confusing to decide the excat chart to use for a specific business area or should we even use a chart or we are fine with using a table?
2. If I want to display statistical information (Quartile, Perntile, Median etc.) in a dashboard, what chart type is most recommended?
I want to know your opinions based on your experience.
Best Regards
Ram
Hi Ram, In addtion to the answer from Mico, there are some objects you should alos be careful when using. I have included those in the table below.. Berg Moderator's note: See Post #48 to view the table mentioned in this post. Thanks!
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Forum Moderator
on Jan 26, 2012 - 03:59PM
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1 year ago ::
Jan 25, 2012 - 12:47PM
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What special security issues do you think are most important to address as teams build and test new dashboards?
Hi Andrea, First of all, I reccomend leveraging the BEx Queries if you are using BW. This permitts the use of the authorization relevant objects to work for the data level security the same was as traditional BEx Analyzer and BEx Web interfaces. Second, I would create a deployment diagram that shows who will get access to what dashborad. This becomes the 'road-map' for setting up roles and security and make any changes needed based on you deployment plans. Third, I would include formal positive testing (can I get access to what I am supposed to have access to) and negative testing (can I not access what I am not sopposed to have access to), and include this in my system and integration testing. This is extreemely important to include for dashboards that are external facing (i.e. to customers and vendors). From a log-on and Single-Sign-On perspective (SSO) we like to leverage the SAP roles (i.e you are an BW/ERP cutsomer) and pass these credential to BOBJ and all sources based on standard SAP security. This simplifies role and security management. However, there are no lack of options here (LDAP, Active directory etc....). Dr. Berg
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1 year ago ::
Jan 26, 2012 - 3:56PM
#48
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Hello Gurus,
Good Afternoon. Couple of questions.
1. When building dashboards, are there any recommended chart types to be used for different reporting areas (Finance, Sales, Manufacturing, Retail etc.). If not, Is it always the business that decides what kind of charts to use in a dashboard? It's confusing to decide the excat chart to use for a specific business area or should we even use a chart or we are fine with using a table?
2. If I want to display statistical information (Quartile, Perntile, Median etc.) in a dashboard, what chart type is most recommended?
I want to know your opinions based on your experience.
Best Regards
Ram
Hi Ram,
In addtion to the answer from Mico, there are some objects you should alos be careful when using. I have included those in the table below..
Berg
Moderator's note: Here is the table that Berg was referring to in the post above.
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