Xcelsius Canvas Container
In this article I’ve attached a video that talks about the new Canvas Container feature in Xcelsius 2008 SP3. I found that the Canvas container is very easy to use and provides the same functionality...
View ArticleXcelsius Push Button
The Push Button is a powerful new feature in Xcelsius SP3 that allows developers to transfer source data from an arbitrary sized cell block to a destination cell block of the same size. This gives us a...
View ArticleUsing Filtered Rows instead of VLOOKUP
This article talks about using the filtered rows technique instead of a VLOOKUP. Not until Xcelsius 2008 came out, were we able to filter on multiple rows of data that matched 1 entry. So in order to...
View ArticleBug in Xcelsius 2008 SP4 that does not allow dynamic color changing
I’ve had several comments on my “Xcelsius Dynamic Color Binding” post regarding issues where their dynamic colors were not changing. Well I did a quick test and yes there is a bug! So I wanted to warn...
View ArticleAll you need to know about Open Document (opendoc) Part 2
I’ve been getting a lot of emails lately on how to setup opendocument (opendoc), so I’d like to post this tutorial on how to do so which works for Business Objects XI 3.1. Unfortunately my previous...
View ArticleBI Web Services presentation from SAP Inside Track 2011 now available for...
Thanks to everyone who attended my presentation on BI Web Services at SAP Inside Track Vancouver 2011! A replay of the presentation can be found at the following link => http://bit.ly/rkBU1p I’ve...
View ArticleUsing Xcelsius and Webservices to insert comments into a database
A common request that I have seen with my clients, is the ability to enter comments into a dashboard and then view those comments when they re-open the dashboard in the future. Unfortunately Xcelsius...
View ArticleSAP BusinessObjects Dashboard 4.1 Cookbook now available!
Time flies as the original cookbook which covered SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0 has been in publication for almost five years. Xavier Hacking and I would like to give a Big Thank You to those who...
View Article