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Create a Pie Chart
Pie charts are effective for showing the percentage of a group compared to the rest of the whole topic. It is also possible to drill down into the regional comparison to see the expense percentages for each city in a region.
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Customize Your Cartesian Charts
Board provides a variety of properties to customize the Cartesian Charts that you create, including color selection, shading, and split bars to show yearly comparisons.
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Set Up a New Data View Screen
This Step-By-Step will lead you through the process to create a new version of the expense details Data View on a new Screen to show the comparison between the previous year's expense total values and the current year's total values.
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Create a Label with Navigation Capabilities
This Step-By-Step will lead you through the process of creating a label with navigation functionality so that an end user can toggle between the Home screen and the Variance Analysis Screen.
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Create a Data View Object
This Step By Step will lead you through the process of creating a Data View Object showing expense data by month for Clarity Jewelers.
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Set Up a Capsule and Build a Screen
This Step by Step will walk you through the set up of a Capsule as well as starting the initial build of the home Screen layout for Clarity Jewelers. This Step by Step will place the correct number of objects for you in the correct location to set up the Clarity Jewelers home Screen as well as simplifying a few other set…
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Create a Data Reader for Relationships
This activity will lead you to set up a data reader for the Relationships between the Entities. This is considered an advanced-level concept for those who want to be Board developers.
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Create a Data Reader for the Cube
This activity will lead you through the steps to set up a data reader for the Cube. This is considered an advanced-level concept for those that aspire to be Board developers.
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Build a Cube
In this Cube for Clarity Jewelers, you'll have the expense type, department, and location dimensions. Dimension is the Board term for the Entities set up in the multidimensional Cube. Each data point in the Members of the Entities has its own container called a cell. Follow this Step-by-Step activity to set up the first…
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Create Relationships between Entities
When there is a one-to-one or a many-to-one mapping between Entities, they can be set up in a child-parent hierarchy using Relationships. Relationships are set up after all of the Entities are built. Follow the directions below to practice the steps needed to create an essential Relationship between three Entities. You can…
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Add a Member
Imagine that an Entity is a container that holds data points, and the data points are Members. Members are individual items of data contained in an Entity. Members usually are text and codes, for example, customers, products, and cities. Practice adding a Member to an Entity by following the steps below. You can also go…
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Build an Entity
An Entity is the basic building block in a Data Model. It's generally a list of items or Members for which data is stored (in Cubes). For example, a customer Entity may be a list of customers or Members. Entities are the containers where data is stored; the relationships between different Entities, and their Members,…
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Build a Data Model
The Data Model is where the expense data, the business rules, logic structure—Entities, Relationships, and Cubes—and conceptual representation of these logics are stored. You can follow the directions below to practice the steps you need to build a Data Model. You can also go back and forth between the steps by selecting…