SBOP Event Insight XI 4.0 DASHBOARD USER MANUAL SAP Business Objects

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1 SBOP Event Insight XI 4.0 DASHBOARD USER MANUAL 2009 SAP Business Objects

2 Copyright 2010 SAP AG. All rights reserved.sap, R/3, SAP NetWeaver, Duet, PartnerEdge, ByDesign, SAP Business ByDesign, and other SAP products and services mentioned herein as well as their respective Copyright logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of SAP AG in Germany and other countries. Business Objects and the Business Objects logo BusinessObjects, Crystal Reports, Crystal Decisions, Web Intelligence, Xcelsius, and other Business Objects products and services mentioned herein as well as their respective logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of Business Objects S.A. in the United States and in other countries. Business Objects is an SAP company. All other product and service names mentioned are the trademarks of their respective companies. Data contained in this document serves informational purposes only. National product specifications may vary. These materials are subject to change without notice. These materials are provided by SAP AG and its affiliated companies ("SAP Group") for informational purposes only, without representation or warranty of any kind, and SAP Group shall not be liable for errors or omissions with respect to the materials. The only warranties for SAP Group products and services are those that are set forth in the express warranty statements accompanying such products and services, if any Nothing herein should be construed as constituting an additional warranty SBOP Event Insight XI 4.0 Dashboard User Manual 2

3 Table of Contents 1 INTRODUCTION REFERENCE DASHBOARD STRUCTURE DESIGN IMPLEMENTATION OF VISUAL DESIGN CANVAS AND BACKGROUND COMPONENT TRAFFIC LIGHT CATEGORY - STATUS MATRIX LIST AREA IMPLEMENTATION OF DATA DESIGN FRONT END DATA DESIGN SPREADSHEET DATA DESIGN SPREADSHEET FILTERED DATA TAB CONNECTION XCELSIUS TO EVENT INSIGHT STEP 1 XCELSIUS PLUG-IN STEP 2 CONNECTING TO EVENT INSIGHT URL STEP 3 BINDING NODE FIELDS TO XCELSIUS S EXCEL DOCUMENT UPDATE GRAPH GLOSSARY SBOP Event Insight XI 4.0 Dashboard User Manual 3

4 1 Introduction The purpose of this document is to demonstrate how to implement the Reference Dashboard using Event Insight and Xcelsius. Xcelsius can be used to create dashboards using real time data stream produced by Event Insight. This document will demonstrate how to implement a Summary List Detail dashboard. SBOP Event Insight XI 4.0 Dashboard User Manual 4

5 2 REFERENCE DASHBOARD STRUCTURE The Summary List Detail dashboard has three major sections: Summary. This is the topmost section that has a numeric Category Status matrix. Cells of this matrix indicate the number of events. For example, a cell may indicate number of successful deliveries, while another cell may indicate pickups that have problems. It is recommended that rows represent categories while columns status. The Category Status matrix is extensible. The number of categories and statuses can be increased. List of Items. This is the middle section that displays a list of items per selected Category Status cell. For example, it can enumerate headings of successful deliveries. Details of Item. This is the last section that shows details of an item. This part of the Reference Dashboard is out of scope. This document will not demonstrate how to implement this part. 1 SUMMARY 2 LIST OF ITEMS 3 DETAILS OF ITEM Fig 1.1 Summary-List-Detail Dashboard Structure The Summary List Detail dashboard will have the visual design shown in Fig 1.2. SBOP Event Insight XI 4.0 Dashboard User Manual 5

6 Figure 1.2. Visual Design of Summary-List-Detail Dashboard. This dashboard is demonstrating a Supply Chain Management (SCM) scenario. The reference dashboard can be used to manage the load of a SCM company. In the Category-Status matrix a Supply Chain Management scenario could have the categories Delivery, Enroute, Pickup and Appointment, examples of status would be OK, Warning and Error. A Supply Chain Management company would monitor all its shipments. Each shipment would have a category and a status e.g. has shipment been picked up. Each shipment event fed in from Event Insight would have a category and status. Using this information the Category-Status matrix can display the number of shipments that are of a particular category and status. This feature can not just manage by exception by highlighting areas of concern for the user e.g. there are multiple shipments that have not been picked up. It will also manage other areas of interest. The Category-Status matrix is extensible the user can establish the number of categories and statuses it needs to manage its system. The Category-Status matrix will be presented in a Traffic light structure e.g. Green for OK, Yellow for Warning and Red for Error. This Traffic Light structure containing the Category-Status matrix will be a clickable grid. This feature will allow the user to further investigate areas of concern. By clicking on a Category-Status cell in the matrix, information of the events of that particular category and status will be displayed in the List of Items section. The List of Items section displays extra details of the events. In the Fig XXX above the list of items displays the following information about the Shipment events Shipment Number, Carrier, Load and Name. The next section describes how the Reference Dashboard is designed. SBOP Event Insight XI 4.0 Dashboard User Manual 6

7 3 DESIGN To implement the reference dashboard the Business Object products Xcelsius and Event Insight are required. Xcelsius will use the real time stream of events from Event Insight to run and execute the Reference Dashboard. Stream of Events Figure 3.1. Reference Dashboard elements To implement the reference dashboard in Xcelsius the design process will be divided into two sections Visual Design and Data Design as shown in Fig 3.2. Event Insight will feed events in to the data design section of the reference dashboard. Fig 3.2 Reference Dashboard elements design The visual design is driven by the data design of the reference dashboard. The user of the reference dashboard will interact with the visual design. This interaction from the user will also propagate back into the data design see Fig 3.2. The visual design will be made up of different Xcelsius visual components. These components will create the traffic light structure and list of items of the reference dashboard. These components will be driven by the data design section of the reference dashboard. SBOP Event Insight XI 4.0 Dashboard User Manual 7

8 The Data Design section is made up of Excel spreadsheets which contain information to drive the visual components. For example the data design section will also contain the stream of live events from Event Insight. Information driving the visual components and users interaction Stream events of Fig 3.3 Reference Dashboard visual and data design Event Insight Graph and Output node SBOP Event Insight XI 4.0 Dashboard User Manual 8

9 4 IMPLEMENTATION OF VISUAL DESIGN Different Xcelsius visual components are needed to implement this reference dashboard see Fig 3.3. The following sections describes how these necessary components are set up in Xcelsius in order to implement the reference dashboard shown in Fig Canvas and Background Component The first underlining component necessary for the reference dashboard is the background. Select Background from the Xcelsius component list and click on the canvas. When all the visual components are complete then you can select the fit components to canvas option in Xcelsius. Figure 4.1. Reference Dashboard Background component SBOP Event Insight XI 4.0 Dashboard User Manual 9

10 4.2 Traffic Light Category - Status Matrix The traffic light Category Status matrix area will consist of two of visual components grouped together to from a group component. The individual components are listed below. These components are driven by the Front End data design spreadsheet. Details on how to set up the Front End data design spreadsheet can be found in the Data Design section 5.1. The data design populates the Xcelsius visual components with data. Xcelsius Visual Component Spread Sheet Table Stacked Bar Chart Type Data Data Function To display the category and status matrix labels and the number of events associated to each category and status combination. Creates the traffic light display and makes the cells of the category status matrix interactive. SBOP Event Insight XI 4.0 Dashboard User Manual 10

11 4.2.1 Spread Sheet Table Component The spreadsheet table is the Category-Status matrix. The Category-Status matrix is driven the by the Front End data design spreadsheet. The spread sheet component must be set up shown by the steps below. Step 1: Select Spreadsheet table from component list and click on the background component. Figure Reference Dashboard Spreadsheet component SBOP Event Insight XI 4.0 Dashboard User Manual 11

12 Step 2: The spreadsheet table is driven by the Front End data design spreadsheet. The spreadsheet should contain the display data for the Category - Status matrix. In this example the category labels are Delivery, Enroute, Pickup and Appointment. The status labels area OK, Warning and Error. Note: the number of categories and statuses are dependent on what the reference dashboard is managing. Please see Section 5.1 to see how the Front End data design spreadsheet is set up. Display Data for the Category- Status matrix Fig Front End data design spreadsheet containing category status matrix display data. The cells in the Front End data design spreadsheet are selected in the Display Data section in the General properties tab of the Spreadsheet Table component. Fig Spreadsheet table component properties General tab SBOP Event Insight XI 4.0 Dashboard User Manual 12

13 Step 3: Under the Behaviour tab of the Spreadsheet component properties ensure that none of the rows have selectabililty and ensure to select the option Show Gridlines under the Appearance Layout tab. Fig Spreadsheet table component Behaviour properties tab Fig Spreadsheet table component Appearance properties tab SBOP Event Insight XI 4.0 Dashboard User Manual 13

14 4.2.2 Stacked Bar Chart Component The stacked bar chart component will create the clickable traffic light grid. The spread sheet component must be set up as demonstrated below. Step1: Select Stacked Bar chart from the component list and click on the background. Fig Reference Dashboard Stacked Bar Chart component SBOP Event Insight XI 4.0 Dashboard User Manual 14

15 Step 2: The stacked bar chart is also driven by the Front End data design spreadsheet. The data design spreadsheet must contain the layout for the bar chart. Details on how to set up the Front End data design spreadsheet can be found in Section 5.1. The labels for the bar chart were already created for the spread sheet component (see section 4.2.1) so in order to complete the Category-Status matrix component the background for the traffic light structure is created here. Layout for Clickable Bar Chart Buttons Fig Front End data design spreadsheet containing layout for traffic light stacked bar chart buttons The layout for the clickable bar chart buttons are selected in the Data section in the General properties tab of the Stacked Bar Chart component. The Data will be selected By Series. Each Status will have to be added to the Series. Click on the + button. Enter the name of the status and the select the value range. The values are the range of cells under the Status Name in the Front End Data Sheet. For this series Error the value range is F17 to F20. This will be dependent on the number of categories in your Category- Status Matrix Fig Stacked Bar Chart General properties tab. SBOP Event Insight XI 4.0 Dashboard User Manual 15

16 Step 3: The Drill Down properties for the Stacked Bar chart component should be set up as demonstrated below. The options in this Drill Down properties tab are available only if a series has been added to the chart in the General tab of the stacked bar chart component. The options in this area define how the bar Chart component will behave when a selection is made. Select the series name destination to be one of cells in the Front End data design spreadsheet. This will capture the status the user clicks on. In this example the user status selection is stored in cell C1. The insertion type is Position. When a series is selected in the chart component, the position of the value within the series is entered into the target cell. This allows us to capture what category the user clicks on. The destination cell for the category is the FrontEnd cell D 12. Fig Stacked Bar Chart Drill Down properties tab. SBOP Event Insight XI 4.0 Dashboard User Manual 16

17 Step 4: The Appearance properties for the Stacked Bar chart component should be set up as demonstrated below. In the Appearance properties, deselect the Show Chart Background under the Chart area section of the Layout tab. This is selected by default. Set the column colours in the Series tab to be the traffic light colours. Fig Stacked Bar Chart Appearance Layout properties tab. Fig Stacked Bar Chart Appearance Layout properties tab. In the Axes tab deselect all axes and gridlines. In the Text tab deselect all text. Fig Stacked Bar Chart Appearance Axes properties tab. Fig Stacked Bar Chart Appearance Layout properties tab. SBOP Event Insight XI 4.0 Dashboard User Manual 17

18 4.2.3 Traffic Light Category-Status Matrix component The Traffic Light Category-Status Matrix is made up of the Stacked Bar Chart component and the Spreadsheet Table component. These components will have to be grouped to make up the Traffic Light Category-Status Matrix. To group these components follow the following steps Step 1: The spreadsheet table component must be moved over the stacked bar chart component. The Category-Status cell values must be seen on the traffic light structure. Layout for Clickable Bar Chart Buttons Fig The Stacked Bar Chart component and the Spreadsheet Table component combined. Step 2: When the spreadsheet table and stacked bar chart appears as shown in Fig XXX then these component need to be grouped. Highlight both components and right click the mouse. Select Group. After these components are grouped it can be renamed to Category-Status Matrix Fig Grouping the Spreadsheet Table and Stacked Bar chart in the Object Browser SBOP Event Insight XI 4.0 Dashboard User Manual 18

19 4.3 List Area This is the middle section of the reference dashboard that displays a list of items per selected Category-Status cell. For example, it specifies details of events that have a particular category and status. It consists of two components. Xcelsius Component Type Function List View Display Displays filtered data Label Based Menu Filter A hidden component that filters LE events based on users interaction List View Component The List view component is a table that displays the filtered data based on the user s selection in the Category-Status matrix. The List view component is populated with data held in the FILTERED DATA design spreadsheet. The FILTERED DATA design spreadsheet is set up as shown in Section 5.3. The List View Component should be set up as follows Step 1: Place a list view component on the background. Fig The Reference Dashboard List View component. SBOP Event Insight XI 4.0 Dashboard User Manual 19

20 Step 2: The list view component is driven by the FILTERED DATA design spreadsheet. The FILTERED DATA design spreadsheet is set up as shown in Section 5.3. Fig The Filtered Data design spreadsheet The cells in the FILTERED DATA data design spreadsheet are selected in the Display Data section in the General properties tab of the List View component. The maximum amount number of rows that can be selected is 510. Xcelsius can only hold up to 510 events from Event Insight. Fig The List View component General Properties tab SBOP Event Insight XI 4.0 Dashboard User Manual 20

21 Step 3: The Behaviour properties for the List View component should be set up as demonstrated below. Fig The List View component Behaviour Properties tab Step 3: The Appearance properties for the List View component should be set up as demonstrated below. This property allows you set the column width of the columns in the List of Items table. Fig The List View component Appearance Properties tab Fig The List View component Appearance Properties tab SBOP Event Insight XI 4.0 Dashboard User Manual 21

22 4.3.2 Label Based Menu The Label Based Menu component is a hidden component that is responsible for filtering Event Insight data events based on the users selection. The Label Based Menu component must be set up as demonstrated below. Step 1: Place a Label Based Menu component on the background. Fig The Reference Dashboard Label Based Menu component SBOP Event Insight XI 4.0 Dashboard User Manual 22

23 Step 2: The Label Based Menu is driven by the Front End data design spreadsheet and the Data design spreadsheet. The Front End data design spreadsheet contains a key that is generated based on the users selection. Details on the Front End data design spreadsheet and creating this key can be found in Section 5.1. The properties of the Label Based Menu should be set up as follows The Label Based Menu labels are driven from the key column of the DATA design spreadsheet. The maximum amount number of rows that can be selected is 510. Xcelsius can only hold up to 511 events from Event Insight. The Label Based Menu uses the Filtered Rows functionality and takes a range of data with duplicate data entries and filters the data so that there are only unique entries. Based on the user's selection, the Label Based Menu locates all data points that correspond to the selected label in the source data. Note once again the maximum row range is 511. The data is then inserted in a range of cells in the FILTERED DATA design spreadsheet. It is this data that is to be displayed in the List View component. Note the maximum number of rows is 511. Fig Label Based Menu General properties tab SBOP Event Insight XI 4.0 Dashboard User Manual 23

24 Step 3: The Behaviour properties for the Label Based Menu component should be set up as demonstrated. The user selection key is held in the Front End data design spreadsheet. For this scenario it is held in cell C3. See Section 5.3 to see how this key is generated. Fig The Label Based Menu component Behaviour Properties tab SBOP Event Insight XI 4.0 Dashboard User Manual 24

25 Step 4: The Label Based Menu component is a hidden component. It is just used to filter data base on the user s choice. To unsure this not visible to the user it must be hidden behind the background component Fig Hiding the Label Based Menu in the Object Browser Fig The Reference Dashboard Object View SBOP Event Insight XI 4.0 Dashboard User Manual 25

26 5 IMPLEMENTATION OF DATA DESIGN The data design drives and is driven by the visual design Xcelsius components see Fig 3.3. Three data design spreadsheets are needed to implement this reference dashboard. Data Design spreadsheets Type Function Front End Display Drives Xcelsius components DATA Data Holds events from Event Insight FILTERED DATA Data Holds filtered events based on user selection SBOP Event Insight XI 4.0 Dashboard User Manual 26

27 5.1 Front End Data Design Spreadsheet The Front End Data design spreadsheet drives and is driven by the Xcelsius visual components. The Front End Data design must be set up as follows. Category-Status matrix display data. Used to capture users selection, is driven by Xcelsius visual components. Background Area for clickable bar chart buttons Establishes the event category and status identifier s of the events supplied by Event Insight Fig The Front End Data Design Spreadsheet SBOP Event Insight XI 4.0 Dashboard User Manual 27

28 Step 1: The Category- Status matrix display data is stored in this data design spreadsheet. The Category names and status names are dependent on what the Reference Dashboard is modelling. The Category-Status matrix is extendable and can have a number of categories and statuses. In this scenario there are 4 categories and 3 statuses. This display data Category- Status matrix is the selected as display data for the visual spreadsheet component (see Section 4.2.1) Status Names Category Names Fig The Front End Data Design Spreadsheet containing Category Status matrix names SBOP Event Insight XI 4.0 Dashboard User Manual 28

29 Step 2: The Category-Status matrix not only displays the names of categories and statuses. It also displays the number of events that are of a particular category and status. These numbers are generated from the data stored in DATA design spreadsheet. The DATA design spreadsheet contains the events from Event Insight.See Section 5.2 and 6 on how to set up and structure the DATA design spreadsheet and how to populate it with Event Insight events. To populate each cell of the Category Status matrix with the number of events of a particular category and status the following excel formula is needed. COUNTIF(DATA!$B5:$B515, $C$8&$D$7&$C$4) This formula counts the number of events fed into to the DATA design spreadsheet that have a certain category and status, e.g. the number of shipments that have been delivered successfully. Each cell will have a unique formula based on its category and status. The column B in the DATA design spreadsheet contains the key of the event. The key identifies the category and status of the event. The cells $C$8&$D$7&$C$4 generate the key which should be searched for in the B column of the DATA design spreadsheet. C8 is the Category, D7 is the status and C4 is the event type. Each cell in the Category-Status matrix will have a different key. This cell counts the number of events in the DATA design spreadsheet whose key matches the category of Delivery, the status of OK and the event type of Y. The event type of Y is explained in Section 5.2. It ensures only the most recent events are counted. Fig The Excel formula used to count the number of events of a particular category and status The following cell will have the formula =COUNTIF(DATA!$B$5:$B$105, $C$9&$F$6&$C$4) It will count the number of events in DATA design spreadsheet that have the category of Enroute and the status of Warning and the event type of Y. The column in the DATA SBOP Event Insight XI 4.0 Dashboard User Manual spreadsheet 29

30 Step 3: The Traffic Light Category-Status matrix is interactive. Using the visual components the Front End data design spreadsheet can capture the user s selection. Based on the user s selection a key is generated. This key can then be used to filter out the events held in the DATA design spreadsheet. These filtered events are then displayed in the List of Items section of the Reference Dashboard. Used to capture the status the user selects. See Section XX on how the user s selection is captured. Used to capture the row position the user selects Fig The Front End Data Design Spreadsheet containing Category Status matrix names SBOP Event Insight XI 4.0 Dashboard User Manual 30

31 The status the user selects is stored in the Front End Data design spread sheet (see section to see how the stacked bar chart component captures this info). The row position that the user clicks on in the stacked bar component is captured and stored in the cells shown. The cell were the row position that user clicks on is dependent on the Status the user selects. (See section to see how the stacked bar chart component captures this info) As only the row position that the user clicks on in the Traffic Light Category-Status component is captured the Excel Formula below determines the corresponding category name. The category name is needed to generate a key that will used to search the events in the DATA design spreadsheet. Each status will use the Excel Formula to determine the Category name. =INDEX(C7:C11,5-D12) Using the row position captured by the stacked bar chart visual component ( see Section this). The following formula can return the row value that corresponds to row position Fig Determining the category name to generate the filter key In this scenario there are three statuses. Each status will use the following formula to determine the row value/row name or category name. The range C7 C11 contains the category names. This range would increase if the number of categories increases. In this example D12 contains the row position of the user selected the status OK, E12 contains the row position if the user select the status Warning and so on. =INDEX(C7:C11,5-D12) SBOP Event Insight XI 4.0 Dashboard User Manual 31

32 If there was five categories instead of four the formula must be adapted as follows. Note the category name would not necessarily be stored in the cells C7 C11 it is just for this example we use this range. =INDEX(C7:C12,6-D12) To generate the key to filter the Event Insight events the status name and the category name of the Category-Status matrix cell the user selected must be combined. The status column the user selects in the Category-Status matrix is stored in the cell C1 (Section demonstrates how the user s status selection is captured). Based on the status the user selects the category name the user selected is stored in the Front End data design spreadsheet cell C2. To determine the category name it finds which column the user s status selection matches in the Category-Status matrix. Depending on the column the user s status selection matches the category name is taken from one of the corresponding cells D13, E13 and F13. =IF(C1=D7,D13,IF(C1=E7,E13,IF(C1=F7,F13))) Fig Determining the category name based on the users status selection SBOP Event Insight XI 4.0 Dashboard User Manual 32

33 Once the category name and status name have been determined a filter key is established. The cell you choose to generate the key is dependent on how you design your Front End Data design. The selected key is held in the Front End Data design spreadsheet cell C3. This cell uses the Excel Formula below. This formula combines the status name, the category name and the event type Y. The event type Y is explained in the DATA design spreadsheet implementation in Section 5.3. This key is used to filter the events held in the DATA design spreadsheet generated by Event Insight. The hidden visual component Label Based Menu component uses this key to filter the events from the DATA design spreadsheet into the FILTERED DATA design spreadsheet (see Section 4.3.2). Fig The Reference Dashboard Filter Key SBOP Event Insight XI 4.0 Dashboard User Manual 33

34 5.2 DATA design spreadsheet The DATA design spreadsheet contains data supplied by Event Insight. How Xcelsius connects to Event Insight is covered in Section 6. To create the Summary List Detail Reference Dashboard each event fed in from Event Insight must Be identified by an Id Have a category Id Have a status Id Have additional information describing the event. In this Supply Chain Management scenario the Shipment column is the event identifier. The category and status identifiers are described in the Front End data design spreadsheet (see Section 5.1). These shipment events also have additional information such as Carrier, Load and Customer Name. This information is displayed in the List of Items section of the Reference Dashboard. Fig Determining the category name to generate the filter key SBOP Event Insight XI 4.0 Dashboard User Manual 34

35 The category status matrix is populated by the number of events present in this spreadsheet that are of particular category and status. To determine the number of events of a particular category and status a key is need to identify the category and status of each event. Using the category and status identifiers in the Front End design spreadsheet the following Excel formula is used to generate the event key for each event in column B. The cells in the category-status matrix count the number of events of a particular category status based on this key (see section 5.1). =INDEX(FrontEnd!$C$23:$C$26,MATCH(C5,FrontEnd!$D$23:$D$26,0))&INDEX(FrontEnd!$ C$29:$C$31,MATCH(D5,FrontEnd!$D$29:$D$31,0))&J5 Fig Combining the event Category, Status and Event type of the LE events to generate the Filter key New shipments are generated and updated continually. For example status of a shipment may change so it is important to ensure that the old events of a particular shipment are not recorded in the category-status matrix. To ensure this, the column Event is added. This Event column will establish if the event is old or new. Only new events are used to determine the number of events that are of a particular category and status. SBOP Event Insight XI 4.0 Dashboard User Manual 35

36 The excel formula in column Event checks if the shipment is a new shipment in the DATA spreadsheet. Y it is new and N if it is an old. It checks if the shipment id is already present in the Data design spreadsheet. It checks the number of rows you have selected to feed LE events into. In this case it checks only the rows 6 to 54. =IF(ISNA(VLOOKUP($E5,$E6:$E54,1,FALSE)),"Y", "N") Fig Excel Formula to determine if an event is old or new. SBOP Event Insight XI 4.0 Dashboard User Manual 36

37 5.3 Filtered Data Tab The FILTERED DATA is driven by the user s selection on the visual components. The Label based components drives this tab see Section on how the visual component is set up. The List view component is populated by this spreadsheet based on the user s selection. See section on the List View component. Each column in the Filtered Data Spreadsheet is drawn from the DATA spreadsheet. Fig The Filtered Data design spreadsheet SBOP Event Insight XI 4.0 Dashboard User Manual 37

38 6 CONNECTION XCELSIUS TO EVENT INSIGHT The following steps demonstrate how to connect Xcelsius with Event Insight. 6.1 Step 1 Xcelsius Plug-in It is necessary to add on an Xcelsius plug-in to connect to Event Insight. To complete this step follow the instructions below 1. Open up Xcelsius. 2. Click on File and select Manage Add-Ons. 3. Click Add and using the browsing option select the plug in Xcelsius Add On.xlx. Xcelsius Add On.xlx can be found in the Bundle Manager directory in the Event Insight directory. 6.2 Step 2 Connecting to Event Insight URL The next step is to connect the Event Insight URL. Event Insight (LE) exposes only one web service so all dashboard applications use the same URL. First the chosen LE graph first must be exported to the repository. This publishes the graph making it accessible by the URL. The LE URL must be manually created. &user=2b06aefb11c0ee777c07fc8.conf Fig 6.2 Example of Event Insight URL Fig 6.2 shows an example of a LE URL., the address dubd a:8082 describes the machine name and port that LE is hosted on. The id parameter describes the name of the chosen graph e.g. GroupByC. The user parameter contains the user handshake config file name. This file can be found in the Bundle Manager directory. To connect Xcelsius to the LE URL complete the following steps in Xcelsius 1. Click on Data and select Connections. 2. In the Data Manager window, click Add. Under the Add-On Connections select Event Insight Business Intelligence. 3. A pop up Get Query Package Metadata appears requesting the Event Insight URL. Enter the LE URL. SBOP Event Insight XI 4.0 Dashboard User Manual 38

39 6.3 Step 3 Binding Node fields to Xcelsius s Excel document. The Data Manager properties are divided into three sections. Server Parameters The Server Parameters contain the following details Query Package (Graph name), Server Address (URL), Timeout, Login (user), Password and Last update time. The Login must be entered. This is the same as user parameter in the Event Insight URL. This user handshake config file can be found in the Bundle Manager directory of the Event Insight directory. A password is not necessary to connect to the Event Insight URL. Input Data The input data section contains the names of the graph nodes. Output Data The Output data section contains the field names of each of the graph nodes. This section allows the user to bind the fields of the graph nodes to the cells of the in-built Xcelsius Excel document. A graph can have multiple output nodes. Each node can be addressed by a fully qualified id which consists of the graph name and the node name. To bind the fields of the graph nodes to the cells of the in-built Xcelsius Excel document complete the following steps 1. In the Data Manager screen, click on Output Data. 2. Scroll down to the graph node of interest. 3. Click on the Bind button opposite the field name of the graph node. 4. Select a range of cells by highlighting the cells in the in built Xcelsius document. Note: All fields of the graph nodes can be bound to the Xcelsius Excel document. The maximum number of events that can be fed in to Xcelsius from Event Insight is 510. This means the maximum range you can bind a field to is 510 rows e.g. $F$5:$F$ Update Graph To change a LE graph or simply update a graph follow the steps outlined below. 1. In the Data Manager screen, Click on Server Parameters. 2. Click on the Change button opposite Query Package. 3. Enter the URL containing the name of the updated Graph or new Graph. Click OK. 4. Enter Login details. (same as the user parameter in the URL) 5. Bind the fields of the graph nodes to the cells in the in-built Xcelsius Excel document as shown in Section 2.3. SBOP Event Insight XI 4.0 Dashboard User Manual 39

40 7 Glossary Term BOE CEP CMS CQL EDBI GUI HTTP LCDS LE OLAP OSGI RDBMS RMI SOA SQL XML Definition Business Objects Enterprise Complex Events Processing Central Management Service Continuous Query Language Event Driven Business Intelligence Graphical User Interface Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Life Cycle Data Management Event Insight Online Analytical Processing Open Service Gateway Relational Database Management Systems Remote Method Invocation Service Oriented Architecture Structured Query Language Extensible Mark Up Language SBOP Event Insight XI 4.0 Dashboard User Manual 40