Category Archives: Xcelsius

Navigate your BI product to success by considering… Navigation!

Posted on February 1, 2011 by Ron Keler

Whether you are working on a simple report, several reports, a dashboard or a complex BI application, one of the first things you need to consider as part of your design is navigation. The navigation describes the usage pattern, or … Continue reading →

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Xcelsius Step Chart – Combine charts to create a new kind of chart

Posted on January 30, 2011 by Ron Keler

While BusinessObjects Xcelsius has many chart components that provide very robust variety “out-of-the-box”, more often than you like, users ask for a chart that does not exist as a preconfigured component. One of the ways to answer such needs is … Continue reading →

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Control the size of your Xcelsius dashboard in InfoView

Posted on January 28, 2011 by Ron Keler

If you ever tried to publish an SAP BusinessObjects Xcelsius dashboard to InfoView by using the “Export” option to “Enterprise”, you surely ran into a sizing problem when viewing the dashboard. As the dashboard designer, you pay great attention to … Continue reading →

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Localize your global Xcelsius dashboard

Posted on January 23, 2011 by Ron Keler

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 →

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QaaWS vs LiveOffice

Posted on January 21, 2011 by Ron Keler

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 →

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Google style search on your Xcelsius dashboard

Posted on January 20, 2011 by Ron Keler

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 →

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Handling the ALL level in Xcelsius selectors

Posted on January 13, 2011 by Ron Keler

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 →

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Round corners in Xcelsius – Easily add images with transparent background to your dashboard

Posted on January 12, 2011 by Ron Keler

The Xcelsius image component is the key to creating a professional and good looking dashboard that will appeal to users and make them BI Happy. Creating elaborate graphics with complex software such as adobe or gimp can be time consuming … Continue reading →

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