SAP Business Objects: Geo Maps in Web Intelligence

Geo maps allow you to create charts that take advantage of geographical data your reports contain. The implementation of these geo maps in Web Intelligence is similar to the one in SAP Explorer and SAP Lumira. Note that geo maps are for the moment not supported in shared elements.

Mapping Geographical Data

To create geo-maps, you first need to map geographical data contained in the report with the ones available in the geographical database embedded in Web Intelligence:

In Design Mode, in the Available Objects side panel, select a dimension that returns geographical data.
Right click it and in the contextual menu, select the Edit as a Geography command.

In the Edit as a Geography dialog box, use the Level drop-down list to define the geographical level you want to assign to the dimension. It can be Country, Region, Sub-Region or City and assumes all data returned by the dimension is on the same level.
The table displays all values returned by the dimension and a match proposed by Web Intelligence regarding the selected level. You can manually modify these proposals by using the drop-down lists.

When you have finalized your mapping, close the Edit as a Geography dialog box. In the Available Objects side panel, the dimension appears as a geographical dimension.

Using Geographic Charts

To create a geo map, create and run a query containing a geographic dimension as well as the objects to add in the chart. Right-click the report element containing the returned data set and select the Turn to command in the contextual menu.

In the Turn into dialog box, you can select the Geographic section that proposes three geographic chart types:

Choropleth chart
Bubble chart
Pie chart

Select the chart to use as well as the objects to feed it with data. In the Map Item Key, enter the geographic dimension.

Geographic Charts Types.

Validate your chart selection. In the report, the chart is displayed as the selected geo map. You can then edit the chart properties to fine tune its parameters (like the color of the seas) and finalize how your data is displayed in it.

If the document uses a universe as a data source and a drill path containing geographic dimensions has been defined, then the drill path is also supported in geographic charts.