Tech Tip

Software systems almost never deliver the look and functionality needed to meet 100% of an organization’s needs. Each organization has a unique set of requirements which often makes it necessary to implement customizations on top of the delivered product. This principle certainly holds true with SAP BusinessObjects and especially for …

Light at the End of the Line When I use a multi-series line chart in my Xcelsius dashboards, there is more than one way to identify each series: 1) display legends 2) display data labels with “Series Name” enabled 3) mouse-over each data point to see the series name. But …

Here is a sneak-peek of the InfoBurst® Dashboard Connectors In-Depth talk  to be presented in the Dashboard Data Management, Dashboard Delivery & HTML5 Apps with InfoBurst talk at the InfoBurst User Conference – IBIS 2013. Back when we were taking another look at InfoBurst, we also wanted to take another look at how InfoBurst communicated …

Here is a sneak-peak of the InfoBurst® API to be presented in the Report Bursting, Scheduling, Delivery & Administration talk at the InfoBurst User Conference – IBIS 2013. Over 5 years ago we started to think about a new InfoBurst.  One that would take the years of experience that we’ve gathered since InfoBurst launched, and re-think …

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 …

The Filtered Rows option for selectors has provided a very valuable tool for XCelsius designers and is probably used in 99% of dashboards created with this tool.  It essentially allows us to select unknown multiple of out of order rows based upon a value in the rows.  There are times, …

How to Set up SAP Mobi in order to access CMS Content on your Mobile Devices (Both iPad and Android Device) After sifting through an enormous amount of documentation and quite a bit of troubleshooting, I have been able to successfully publish content on both my iPad and Android 4.0.3 …

In my last post, I demonstrated two methods of constructing a Venn diagram in Xcelsius. The first method used a manipulation of the Bubble Chart object and the second method used the free Google Charts API. In this post, I will discuss the pros and cons of both methods. Let’s begin …

Venn diagrams provide an elegant and powerful visual display of information. In essence, a Venn diagram compares the size of two or more groups while simultaneously presenting the level of overlap that exists among the groups. Just for the sake of review, let’s look at a simple business example. The …

The fun started when I decided to upgrade to Office 2010 with Xcelsius 2008… I tried to find service pack 4 for Xcelsius 2008 on SAP’s Business Objects support website, and got confused because following the links and unzipping what was labeled as Service Pack 4, turned out to be …