Posts tagged "Crystal Dashboard Design"
Xcelsius 2008 SP 3 Fix Pack 3 Now Available!
Over the weekend SAP BusinessObjects released the newest Fix Pack for Xcelsius 2008 aka Crystal Dashboard Design, SAP Dashboard Design or even SAP Dashboards. The help documentation is not out on help.sap.com as of yet but it was available in the info for the download so I will attach them to the bottom of the post. One of the big things that I noticed that was fixed but not really stated in the documentation was the Windows 7 export to enterprise issue. Every time you tried to export the dashboard out to InfoView, the save dialog box would be missing text box to name the file as well as the save and cancel buttons. The only way to push the dashboard out was to use a non Windows 7 machine. No longer do I have to fire up my laptop with XP on it to accomplish this feat. Hooray for efficiency! Check out all the fixes below!
Continue reading...SAP BusinessObjects 4 Teaser
Monday, October 11, 2010
SAP just put out a trailer showing off some of the new functionality for the newest release of BusinessObjects. Looks like “data federation” could be included in universes design, the addition of Advanced Analysis as well as some other cool things added to Xcelsius (Crystal Dashboard Design) like QaaWS directly in the tool as well as a Query Prompt Selector. Enjoy!!
Continue reading...Crystal Dashboard Design (Xcelsius 2008): Tips and Tricks ep3: Automatically Moving your Tab Set
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Sorry we missed our normal Tuesday blog post. I have been really busy finishing off a project and getting ready for a 3 week engagement that starts next Tuesday. So I figured that a short post was better than no post at all. Another question was put up on the BOB Forum asking if it was possible to automatically move from tab to tab on an interval. A couple options were thrown out there before mine (all valid options) and I decided that I wanted to go the route and try to keep the functionality all inside of Xcelsius instead of trying to constantly pull data in from a data source. After about 30 minutes I was able to do this with 2 history components and a tab set.
Continue reading...Crystal Dashboard Design (Xcelsius 2008) Tips and Tricks ep2: Automatically Closing Your Calendar Control
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Welcome to episode 2 of our Tips and Tricks for Crystal Dashboard Design (Xcelsius 2008). This post is going to be a short one but should help in making your dashboard stand out among the rest. Ever since I started working with Xcelsius 4.5, I had clients wanting functionality built into their dashboards that just wasn't feasible with the standard out of the box components. One of the biggest request was to take the calendar control and to make it so that they didn't have to click the toggle button to open the calendar, click the date and then click the toggle button to close the calendar. Too many clicks in the end users eyes. So with every new fix pack / service pack for Xcelsius, I have tried to build the functionality that will allow the end user to click a date and have the calendar disappear. With the addition of the push button, we are now able to do this.
Continue reading...Crystal Dashboard Design (Xcelsius 2008) Tips and Tricks ep1: Adding a Select All to your Selector
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
I build and design dashboards pretty much on a daily basis whether it be for a client, POC, or as demo material. One of the biggest things that I dread to hear, is my boss saying either one of these phrases: "How hard would it be...." or "You know what would be cool?" This usually means that I will have to put on my thinking cap and figure out how to pull something off in Crystal Dashboard Design (Xcelsius). TANGENT: Before I go any further, I am going to say that the renaming of Xcelsius to Crystal Dashboard Design has not really sunk in with me, so I apologize for switching back and forth in advance. Anyways, as I was saying, I have to pull off some pretty interesting things relatively often so I thought why not share these Tips and Tricks with everyone who follows our blog. This will be the first entry in a line of many that will pick out a little pieces of functionality that I have built using standard components inside Crystal Dashboard Design and using QaaWS or Live Office. Topic number one is allowing your dashboard to select All of the entries in a selector.
Continue reading...Underwhelm Your Users with a Well-designed Dashboard
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Dashboard and visualizations are a hot topic right now. You can't go to an SAP BusinessObjects event or a user group meeting without seeing over half of the presentations focusing on dashboards and visualizations. And, like with any cutting-edge technology, it seems everyone is trying to get in on the action. While that's a good thing, sometimes people lack the basic knowledge and skills to utilize those tools to deliver effective analysis.
Continue reading...Xcelsius … Crystal Dashboard Design … Xcelsius 2008 Fix Pack 3.2 Now Available!
Friday, June 18, 2010
SAP BusinessObjects has released another fix pack for the newly named Crystal Dashboard Design (Xcelsius 2008). Fix Pack 3.2 is now available for download out on SAP's Service Marketplace and can be found under the Business Objects Download page through the following path: SAP BusinessObjects Support Software and Corrections > SBOP Dashboard Design Enterprise > BOBJ Xcelsius Enterprise 2008. The Release notes and Fixed Issues documentation can be found in the links below.
Continue reading...SCN Winter Olympic Challenge
Friday, April 16, 2010
A little over a month on my Google Reader, I got an RSS Feed from the Business Object SAP Developer Network about an Xcelsius Challenge. The blog was put out by Jason Cao of SAP BusinessObjects and the challenge was to use community poll results in Xcelsius 2008 to showcase a developer's skills. Not really interested, I marked it as read and moved along with my morning ritual of checking the happenings of the world. Later on in the day we had a company meeting to discuss upcoming projects and ideas for a new marketing campaign. One of the topics led us to chatting about creating some new demo dashboards for our website. This is when a light bulb went off in my head and I brought the challenge to the table. Long story short, the boss man thought it was a great idea and an easy way to get a demo dashboard done and put our name out on the SAP Community Network.
Continue reading...Making Your Measures Behave
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Defining measures gets interesting because while they are tied to a high-level corporate goal, they also touch nearly every other aspect of the organization, making it a challenge sometimes to balance all of the competing interests. Plus, as soon as you start converting their behavior into numbers, people will simple adapt their behavior to have good numbers and may not deliver the overall results you had hoped.
Continue reading...Xcelsius 2008 Fix Pack 3.1 Released/What’s Fixed in Xcelsius 2008 FP3.1
Thursday, March 18, 2010
SAP has released Xcelsius 2008 Fix Pack 3.1, and it is now available through the Service Marketplace.
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- Release of a new SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards/Xcelsius add-on component
- SAP BusinessObjects universe and report development for a financial services company
- Creation of a custom SAP BusinessObjects CBT program to provide training to end users
- Student and faculty performance analysis and benchmarking for a K-12 school district
- Development of a custom SAP BusinessObjects extranet, data warehouse, universes, reports and dashboards for a statewide Poison Center
- Claims analysis and reporting for a professional liability insurance company
- Migration from SAP BusinessObjects XIR3 to SAP BI4 for an insurance company
- Inventory and sell-through analysis for a consumers goods manufacturing company
- Sales data mart, reports and dashboards for a mid-market manufacturing company
Friday, October 15, 2010
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