Author Archives: Ron Keler

Bookmark Xcelsius Dashboard

The other day, my colleague Josh Tapley (http://data-ink.com) and I had a conversation about being able to “bookmark” an Xcelsius dashboard. Basically, the idea would be to “save” the user context on the dashboard and be able to return to … Continue reading

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Medicare dashboard – for your iPad

The pursuit of BI Happiness involves being able to view your own dashboards on your iPad or iPhone. To that end, i began converting our medicare dashboard into a pure html5 version. It works much the same way, using the … Continue reading

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Medicare Advantage Enrollment Dashboard

About a month ago, my colleague, Josh Tapley (http://data-ink.com/) and I set out to build an Xcelsius based BI application. Our goals were to demonstrate the capabilities of the technology, when combined with some fundamental data warehousing and BI techniques … Continue reading

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Integrate BusinessObjects BI Services 4.0 with PHP

BusinessObjects 4.0 web services provide a access to BI content for any application that can invoke and consume web services. Xcelsius is probably the best known example of this notion in the BO applications space. Xcelsius (SAP Dashboards) leverages the … Continue reading

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Google maps in webi 4.0 mashup

I recently received several questions about a google maps in webi mashup post i published some time ago. So, i decided to redo the example, using SAP Business Intelligence Platform 4.0 and the latest version of webi.  In the original … Continue reading

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SAP Dashboards (Xcelsius) autocomplete input text

Autocomplete has become a standard in modern application, when users are asked to type in inputs. In the example below, I implemented autocomplete functionality into an Xcelsius input text component. Start typing any zip code starting with 0 and hit … Continue reading

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BI Services Run Time Configuration Explained

SAP BusinessObjects BI Services are a class of web services that can be easily created by converting web intelligence (webi) report blocks into web services. A simple GUI wizard guides the report developer through a few simple steps that publish … Continue reading

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Draggable resizable popup in SAP Dashboards (Xcelsius)

One of the coolest tricks Xcelsius developers have been applying for years is the modal window trick. Using a background with partial transparency, and some nicely designed shades, it’s quite easy to create a popup modal window effect that is … Continue reading

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Sorting out Oracle connectivity on BusinessObjects 4.0

The new BusinessObjects 4.0 platform runs on 64bit OS. In an oracle based environment, this can be the source of much confusion.  While the platform itself (the CMS and Audit databases connections) support 64bit oracle driver connectivity, other BO tools … Continue reading

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What’s cooler than 500 rows in Xcelsius? 50,000 rows in Xcelsius!

Sap Dashboards (Xcelsius) certainly has its limitations. I will be the last one to argue otherwise. However, i often run into misconceptions about what those are exactly. A good example if the 500 rows limit. By default, Xcelsius is preconfigured … Continue reading

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