First: To capture the value selected in Input Control/ Element Link in a cell Goal: Input Control and Element Linking are very frequently used WebI features to create highly interactive WebI reports or dashboards. The goal is to display the user selected option from the radio button/drop down/list box or …

Same Level Break is a new feature added in the Web Intelligence 4.2 service pack – SP05.  With this type of break, the aggregate is displayed at the same level whenever multiple objects are selected for a break. The breaks depend on the layout of the table, meaning that the …

The relevance of BI on mobile devices is not under question any more – we all have figured out the answer. The important question is now: how do we create our BI solutions to be as useful as possible on a mobile device? There are several facets to consider – the …

The checkbox is one of the most common UI elements that allow its users to have binary choices and it is available out-of-the-box in Xcelsius/SAP Dashboards. However, the Xcelsius component is limited due to the inability to control the selection or reset to its default state in run-time programmatically. In …

Reset is a built-in functionality provided in SAP Dashboards. The standard functionality is achieved by simply adding the Reset button which user can click to return the dashboard to its original state and reset the changes performed by user. This is typically used in dashboards with What-If-Analysis controls. There are …

I want to revisit here part of the “D list” that I prepared for the hands-on Dashboard Design Iron Chef Bootcamp which Roxanne and I co-taught at IBIS 2013. In a D is for Dashboards blog post published prior to IBIS, I revealed five of them (Data, Design, Device, Delivery, Dollar), which we described …

Light at the End of the Line When I use a multi-series line chart in my Xcelsius dashboards, there is more than one way to identify each series: 1) display legends 2) display data labels with “Series Name” enabled 3) mouse-over each data point to see the series name. But …