Xcelsius

The stream of articles, white papers and videos desperately trying to convince the business community of the negative impact of poor data quality on their bottom line seems to be never ending.  It almost seems like the IT brigade is marching into a cul-de-sac at the end of which is …

Question: How can I dynamically change the colors on my charts or backgrounds based on user selection?   Answer: Kudos to the Xcelsius development team SAP Business Objects for giving us so much in SP3! One of the great new features is the option to bind the color to a …

Question: In Xcelsius, can I use the “Filtered Rows” functionality to move and filter data from one place to another? Answer: Yes, however, if you use that functionality directly from an interactive selector, then only one set of data will be able to be moved. In this example, we have …

Question:  Have you noticed that sometimes when using a progress bar you are unable to change the settings on the “Progress Movement?”  That it will appear grayed out? Answer: This is due to selecting a cell for the Data in the “General” tab where no values are currently populated. To …

Question: Multiple-tabbed Dashboards, with many formulas and components, take a long time to load into a web browser. To lessen the initial load time, we elected to create separate html/swfs for each tab and link them by URL. Some users want an easy way to open all the html/swfs at …

Question: What can I use the Xcelsius History component for? Or, how can I get my report to launch with the correct prompt? Answer: I finally found a use for the History component, recently, when I found my linked report launching with old data, rather than the latest selection. This …