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Category Archives: Xcelsius
Signal and Noise inspired dashboard
Reading Nate Silvers’ “The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail — but Some Don’t” (amazon link to book) inspired me to create this dashboard to articulate the idea of searching for signal and meaningful insights in the noise … Continue reading
Posted in BI At Large, Data visualization, HTML5, SAP Mobile BI, Xcelsius
Tagged Nate Silver, Signal and noise dashboard, The Signal and the Noise
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How to add animation in SAP Dashboard (Xcelsius) on Mobile
One of SAP Dashboards (Xcelsius) most attractive features is animation. The way components animate in the desktop version of compiled dashboard and the ability to animate various visualizations and include animated files is key to the “sleekness” associated with so … Continue reading
Posted in BusinessObjects 4.0, Data visualization, HTML5, SAP Mobile BI, Xcelsius
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Setting up a single report hyperlink in an SAP dashboard that works on desktop and on mobile
As of SAP BI 4.0 SP7, there are still two different APIs for opening reports over URL through linking on mobile and on desktop. The desktop API is the true and tried openDoc API that has been around for many … Continue reading
Posted in BusinessObjects 4.0, SAP Mobile BI, Xcelsius
Tagged SAP Mobile dashboard report link
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CONNECTED SAP Dashboard as HTML5 – Step-By-Step Info
As promised on the last post, you can find below a detailed account of how to get your connected HTML5 harvested SAP Dashboards (Xcelsius) files to work outside the SAP BI App. I tried to strike a fine balance between … Continue reading
Posted in BusinessObjects 4.0, HTML5, SAP Mobile BI, Xcelsius
Tagged SAP Dashboard connected html5
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How to publish CONNECTED SAP Dashboard (Xcelsius) as HTML5 OUTSIDE the mobile app!
This is a fully functioning connected HTML5 version of an SAP dashboard that connects to the eFashion universe on State change and refreshes the data. Yes. You are not reading this wrong. No plugins used, no third party tools or … Continue reading
Play the pie chart Dreidel
This Saturday is the first night of Chanukah, the Jewish “festival of lights” holiday. One of the games kids play during this holiday is called Dreidel. The Dreidel is essentially a top that has four Hebrew letters marked on four … Continue reading
Posted in BI At Large, Xcelsius
Tagged A BI spin on a Chanukah favorite! Play the pie chart dreidel
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Get Xcelsius EIC connection to work properly in IE9
The EIC (External Interface Connection), is a key feature of Xcelsius that allows the creation of sophisticated integrated dashboard. It’s a programmatic way to pass information through javascript to and from the html container that embeds the Xcelsius swf object. … Continue reading
Control the dashboard size in SAP BI Launchpad 4.0
Xcelsius dashboards developers who leverage the BI 4.0 BI Launchpad as the content portal for delivering their work, have long suffered from the sloppy interface between Xcelsius and the portal. First (and foremost), when you publish an Xcelsius or dashboard … Continue reading
Posted in BusinessObjects 4.0, Xcelsius
Tagged BI Launchpad 4.0, Dashboard in BI Launchpad 4.0
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Xcelsius Flight Seat Order models visualized
On a recent international flight I had a chance to ponder how much the order of seating passengers really impact the amount of time it takes to get all the passengers seated. On one flight, the crew called passengers to … Continue reading
Posted in Xcelsius
Tagged Xcelsius analytical model, Xcelsius flight seating model
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Dynamically resizing images in Xcelsius
It is sometime useful o be able to dynamically change an image size in Xcelsius, based on user inputs for example, or on a data variable that changes live, or as a result of user input. Xcelsius components, except for … Continue reading
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