Chapter 8. Dashboard Connectivity
In this chapter, we will cover:
- Creating a news ticker with Excel XML Maps
- Using Query as a Web Service (QaaWS)
- Using Live Office Connection
- Connecting to SAP BW
- Using Universe queries
- Passing values from dashboard to dashboard with Flash Variables
- Accessing dashboards with live data outside of InfoView using CELoginToken
Introduction
Dashboards get really powerful when they are able to display recent or even real-time data. Of course, you can manually enter the updated data in the Dashboard Design spreadsheet and publish a new dashboard every time the data changes. If your dashboard uses a lot of data that changes regularly, you will quickly find out that this is going to be a very time consuming task.
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