It is well known that Macs have a great user interface, and one of the great things about this interface is the program loading dock. We can emulate this in SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards using the Fisheye Picture Menu selector. But why would someone want to use the loading dock? Well, you can use the loading dock to switch between dashboards on the main dashboard. You can use it to open up another dashboard, or you can use it as a selector to change your charts or data. In this recipe, we are going to emulate swapping between dashboards.
- Select the Fisheye Picture Menu selector.
- We'll need to link an image of each dashboard to the fisheye menu. To do this, press the Import button on the Images Embedded section of the fisheye menu properties. In our example, we are using three dashboards. So click on the Click to Add Images button to load each of the three dashboard images.
- Bind the Labels to the spreadsheet as shown so that the user knows the name of the dashboard when they hover over any of the icons:
- Bind the Source Data and Destination. In this case, we are just using Position for the source. Bind the Destination to cell D2.
- Set the dynamic visibility of each dashboard to the corresponding position of the fisheye menu selector. For example, the HR Health Assessment dashboard has
position 1, so in the dashboard properties, the dynamic visibility should be set to1for cell D2.
The Fisheye Picture Menu is a very simple component similar to the Mac OS X loading dock. It allows users to scroll through icons that will zoom in as you hover over them. As outlined in step 2, we can see that we have to bind images that are similar to program icons. Those icons are linked to the Source Data in step 4.