Sample Example for dashboard ?

[Former Member]

Hi Friends ,

I am new to Dashboard , i have downloaded 30 days trial version of  SAP Crystal Dashboard Design  2011.  i have good knowledge in crystal report ,

But in dashboard i dont know how to connect my spreadsheet data's with design time , and how to add Query ?

Could u please send me some basic Example for creating dashboard . 

Thanks

SRI

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

See Chapter 9 of the user guide; it has plenty of examples:

http://help.sap.com/businessobject/product_guides/xcelsius2008/en/Xcelsius2008_user_guide_en.pdf

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SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards has also a range of examples and templates included in the software itself! You can find both in the FILE menu.

Cheers,

Xavier

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[Former Member]

As far as I know you can only link WebI to the Dashboard tool, not Crystal Reports.  Your BEx query should be used as the datasource for the WebI report.  The data can then be summarized for the dashboard in WebI or just use WebI to pass the data to an Excel spreadsheet that the Dashboard can use.  I am using SP5 but I believe in higher versions of BO you will be able to load the BEx query as the datasource directly into the Dashboard and bypass WebI altogether.

There are several tutorial in the SCN to build

WebI reports - http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-7819?refer=main

Dashboards - http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-7946

Hope this helps.

[Former Member]

Hi Marlene

I wanna clarify and say that Dashboard can also link to Crystal Reports, using LiveOffice connection.

See the option under LiveOffice menu, and you should see Crystal Reports as well.

I am looking for documentation to bypass Liveoffice, and connect Dashboard directly to BEx query, as suggested by SAP as the new features for Dashboards 4.0

Anyone can point to such documentations?

Regards

Rusyinni

[Former Member]

Hi Sriram,

Here are few sample dashboards from SAP, this might help.

http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/boc/xcelsius-samples

View these and , you ll have an idea about the linking.

Thanks,

Sara G