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This month SAP is holding the Innocentive Xcelsius SDK component challenge, enabling developers to create and submit innovative add-on solutions that bring value to the Xcelsius 2008 environment. This is a great opportunity to earn recognition for your submission(s) and to possibly claim some prize cash should you emerge as a category winner.
In this multi-part series, we will enumerate fundamental pieces of the SDK and how to properly use them, including custom component development, property sheet development, component packaging and advanced component integration topics. Let’s get started with a few common items to be aware of. Dynamic Visibility Although there is not a utility available in Xcelsius [...]
We want to be first to let you know that Centigon will be opening its doors in June to accept BETA users, but as one of our readers you can sign up now to test their newest component, the ‘CSV Connector’! For those who don’t know what CSV stands for it means ‘comma separated value’. [...]
Sorry for the late notice… If you are following us on Twitter or in our Linkedin.com group this is old news, but Ryan Goodman and myself have teamed up again to deliver another dynamic webinar! For those who are unaware our first webinar together last year, THANKS TO YOU, it was rated #1 in 2008 [...]
Have you ever created a Line chart, then decided you needed a Column chart? Making the switch between chart types is easy in Excel, but in Xcelsius there is no way to quickly change chart types. You simply have to start over. That means adding a new chart to your canvas, re-doing all your configurations, [...]
I often receive the question “I want to do xyz with a Flex custom component integration in Xcelsius 2008, is that possible?”. Nearly every time, my answer is yes – as long as you’re developing using the proper version of Flex, you can pretty much do anything you want with the following general guidelines in [...]
Did you know that you can add colors to your custom number formatting in Excel? Not only that, but you can leverage Excel’s custom number formatting to add color to all kinds of Xclesius components. I recently produced a video demonstrating how to apply colors to Y-Axis labels based on simple conditions. This is an easy way to add another layer [...]
What kind of custom components can I build for my Xcelsius 2008 dashboards? You can build from scratch or extend any existing component that is available in the Flex 2.0.1 SDK. Below are some common cases (just to name a few) for custom component development. You may need to: Connect to custom data sources Design [...]
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