Did you miss our January 18th webinar Formatting Web Intelligence 4.3 Like a Pro? We have a quick summary of the webinar with the webinar presenters’ key takeaways from their session. Here is the webinar overview: First impressions matter – even for reports! This session will be covering how to …

Did you miss our January 4th webinar Solving Business Problems with BusinessObjects? We have a quick summary of the webinar with the webinar presenters’ key takeaways from their session. Here is the webinar overview: Using Business Objects for finance reporting has been around for decades, but have you considered using …

Have you ever had the need to display a full year of data on a chart … even when you don’t have actual data to display? This is what we want to display: But this is what our data displays:   We used to use complicated work arounds to handle …

One of the often overlooked additions given to us in the 4.2 SP3 release was the ability to merge data on variables, not just dimensions.  For many years we have lived with these restrictions in Web Intelligence: 1.) You could only merge on dimensions, not on variables. 2.) The data format …

Tip: How to stop Windows 10 Update from breaking Xcelsius (SAP Dashboards) Trick: Easy install of a patch or Service Pack Has a recent windows update caused your SAP Dashboards to stop working?  It may well be a recent Windows update for Windows 10 which includes some security updates for Adobe Flash …

I just installed SAP Dashboards 4.0 sp5 and the first thing I wanted to try was opening up a previous version dashboard and...

I have a range slider to show forecast amounts on my chart, but I want the color of the forecast bars to be grayed so that there is an obvious difference between actual amounts and forecast amounts.  So here’s the Tech Tip:   We accomplished this by using Alerts for …

From InfoSolBlog: how best to handle a 13 month dataset when in the dashboard the goal is to only display monthly detail and summary data. This is a good question and in my opinion worth sharing here because it is dealing with boosting Xcelsius backend performance

In addition to the Xcelsius Best Practices Tech Tips found on this site, you can also find helpful information on the InfoSolBlog site.  View all posts tagged Xcelsius Best Practices or select from those listed below:   To Cache or not to Cache – Boosting performance in Xcelsius Tech Tip …

In addition to the Xcelsius Dashboard Maintenance – Best Practices – Using Labels in Excel I wanted to share other important aspects of making Xcelsius dashboards easy to maintain and for other developers to understand.  One such practice is having some kind of conformity in your approach to how you lay out the …