Jun
18

Xcelsius SDK Challenge

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.

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May
26

Getting Started With the Xcelsius 2008 SDK Topic 1: Common Items to Be Aware Of

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 that can provide you with this common feature as an  inherent part of your component, it is possible to wire up dynamic visibility (albeit not  true Xcelsius dynamic visibility) to some extent.
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May
21

NEWS: Centigon CSV Connector BETA Call!

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’.  Seats are limited, the BETA is not yet public so get in now.

Guru Honest Review – This is by far one of the easiest ‘live data connectors’ in Xcelsius we have ever used, which makes sense since the owners of this company were developers themselves.   No rigid formats, special headers or customized scripts!  Signing up on the page below takes on 2 minutes so do it now.

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May
20

Webinar Alert: When to use SAP BOE to connect your dashboard?

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 in attendance.

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May
19

Video: Charting Best Practice for Easy Chart Switching

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, an apply the formatting as needed.

Well in this video, I show you how a simple charting best practice and save you tons of time and energy.

Mike Alexander is the author of several books on advanced business analysis, including Crystal Xcelsius For Dummies. You can find Mike at www.datapigtechnologies.com, where he serves as principle contributor and shares free video tutorials with the Microsoft Office and Xcelsius communities.

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