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Tag Archives: Webi
Integrate Linkedin search in webi reports
In an older post i wrote about integrating linkedin searches with Xcelsius dashboards. The example i created used an EIC (external interface connection) to pass a value to a search section at the bottom of an html page, whereas the … Continue reading
Posted in Web Intelligence
Tagged Web Intelligence, Webi, Webi Linkedin Integration, Webi Mashup
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Mashups are still cool! – Webi/Google mashup example
Mashups have been around as a concept for many year, and as a term for a few. The term mashup became very popular when google released its maps API. Suddenly, everyone had maps mashed up on their web sites. The … Continue reading
Posted in Web Intelligence
Tagged BusinessObjects, Google custom search, Google maps, Web Intelligence, Webi
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Handle semi aggregate measures in universes
While relatively simple data marts can be designed as true simple stars, more often than we like, our reporting data models contains snowflakes. Whatever you want to call these entities, they represent one basic problem for your reporting tools: Cartesian products. … Continue reading
Posted in Universe Design
Tagged BusinessObjects, Context, Data mart, Data warehouse, Dimension, Measure, Semi Aggregate, Snowflake, Star Schema, Universe, Webi
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Localize your global Xcelsius dashboard
If your dashboard is intended for a global audience, you may need to be able to localize it. By localization, most people refer to the ability to translate at minimum the labels and headers of the dashboard, based on the … Continue reading
Posted in Xcelsius
Tagged BusinessObjects, Globalization, Localization, Translation Manager, Universe, Webi, Xcelsius
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QaaWS vs LiveOffice
One of the first major decisions you will face when starting to design your SAP BusinessObjects Xcelsius dashboard is which connectivity option to choose. Xcelsius supports a myriad of connectivity options, and two of the most popular connections for BusinessObjects … Continue reading
Google style search on your Xcelsius dashboard
Dashboard designers have long been concerned with design and usability, concepts typically foreign to IT development. Leveraging all types of selectors in the forms of combo boxes, list selectors, radio buttons and check boxes, they try to make information finding … Continue reading
Handling the ALL level in Xcelsius selectors
Handling the ALL level in Xcelsius selectors is always a problematic proposition. If you tried using a selector to pass a value to your BusinessInteligence prompt, in order to retrieve filtered data from the database, you must have run into … Continue reading
Posted in Xcelsius
Tagged Business Objects, Universe, Webi, Xcelsius
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