Comments on: News: Xcelsius 2008 SP1 Now Available!

By: Business Dashboards

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By: scottiemac

scottiemac — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 18:09:00 +0000

Apparently there is a makeshift workaround for this issue.

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/thread?forumID=302&threadID=1001633

Regards,
Scott

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:50:00 +0000

Thanks for you help everyone, I've started from scratch and uninstalled my existing version of Xcelsius then installed SP1.

I've tried adding connections going the data->connections route and also by clicking the "Launch Data Manager" button from the refresh buttons properties menu. Both routes allow me to add only one web service connection to each .xlf file.

I wonder what the purpose of this limitation is.

Anyway... I'm going to revert back to my version of Xcelsius 2008 without SP1 installed and wait to see if more information surfaces about this issue.

Thanks again for your help

By: The Xcelsius Gurus

The Xcelsius Gurus — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 13:15:00 +0000

Thanks for the help Scottie Mac. Also, are you checking under the following menu Data -> Connections?

Unlike 4.5, 2008 has a new Data Manager that handles all of the data connections (Flash Vars, Web Service Buttons, XML Data etc). They are no longer buttons that you take from the Component List.

Hope this helps!

By: ScottieMac

ScottieMac — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 12:39:00 +0000

What i did was uninstall my version of Xcelsius 2008 and then I installed SP1.

After fiddling with Xcelsius for a while I found that I actually can add a web service Connection.

The catch is that I can only add one connection to each .xlf file. From what I've read this seems to be a limitation of SP1. This seems like a downgrade instead of an upgrade.