1) How did you manage the space of the dashboard? Meaning, how did you plan for it to be on a canvas 8 x 11 or something smaller? I fear that when it gets published, it will be too big for the space it gets published too so I want to make sure I stay within a limited space.
2) Does anyone know some best practices when it comes to publishing a dashboard? Can it be published on the BOBJ portal or another way using HTML? Can it be done using PPT or another Microsoft Office tool? I've read many different answers but none seem to be repeating so I don't know where I can find a single source of truth for publishing a dashboard.
You can publish to BW, BI platform, HANA, etc. per Karol's blog. It depends on your use case.
The link to Perceptual Edge is really helpful - thanks again. I was looking for something a little more concrete to Design Studio. I have read many papers and watched many videos so I am familiar with the concepts of how to set up Dashboards, the dos and donts, and the guidelines presented in his articles. I was hoping to get more insight on the tool itself. I am very familiar with Dashboard Design and I found it easy to play around with canvas size. Since I have never published a Dashboard from Design Studio, I don't know what to expect as the sizing.
Regardless, thanks again for your continuous help!
This is covered in the product documentation, but the deployments that are supported are either on the SAP BusinessObjects Platform, SAP Netweaver BW Platform (BI Java Portal), and HANA. Each deployment has different caveats such as Mobile support and other limitations so depending on which is important will drive the best option. The details are covered in the PAM on SAP's support site. EDIT: Definitely visit the link Tammy gave, it will help you locate this information quicker if you are not familiar with charting course through SAP's Support Site.
Thank you for your prompt response. Like I just mentioned to Tammy, I just wanted to see if people had any tips and tricks with Design Studio specifically, to make sure I don't get something out of proportion or something too small when it is published.
There are three properties (height, width, margins) which specify the position and size of the components in design studio application.
All you have to do is to keep one of these three dynamic for each axis (set to auto). i.e for the width of a component, set one of the width , left margin or right margin to auto, and for height, set one of the top margin, bottom margin or the height to auto. The components will itself adjust to reduced window size.
If you set the height and width of the crosstab to fixed values, one property of each axis is set to auto.
I've just come across this post and thought I could add to your question 1 discussion.