A custom Pie Chart add-on for BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0 SP3 or higher

Here is another interesting add-on for BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0 – a custom pie chart. In my working experience, many times, I did face the requirement of a doughnut chart and exploding a pie wedge while drill-down. So, I have created an add-on for the same in flex with dashboards sdk which I am sharing here.

Features:

General Tab

In this tab, there are options to

• bind the labels and values of the pie chart to excel range.
• insert selected label and value to excel.

Behavior Tab

In this tab, there are options for:

• Dynamic visibility: Setup dynamic visibility of the component.
• Negative value handling: Show negative values as absolute in pie chart or do not show the record at all.
• Top N and Others: It is possible to show top N records and group other records as ‘Others’ in the chart.
  

Appearance Tab

In this tab, there are options to:

• vary inner radius to create a doughnut chart.
• bind colors of the pie wedges to an excel cell range.
• show or hide border.
• select border color.
• select background color.
• select position and font of the legend.

How does it look like in canvas

Without drill-down

After drill-down

Showing top 3 and Others

A Doughnut Chart

Showing data on mouse hover

Custom background and border color

Download

The full flex project along with the add-on(xlx) file is available here for download.

For more interesting add-ons, visit the wiki page SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0 Add-On Gallery.

Happy dashboarding 🙂