Custom Component Style Preservation

During my time as a custom UI component developer for Xcelsius, I have encountered user interface styling and skinning loss at Xcelsius runtime and recently spoke to several developers who have experienced this issue as well. Fortunately, the workaround to preserve styles is fairly easy to apply. The problem: You may develop a button, canvas, [...]

“Dear aBI” Advice Column on SCN

It is such a pleasure to be the first SAP Mentor to kick off this new “Dear aBI” series on the SCN Network.  As a BusinessObjects reporting community evangelist, I was first humbled, but then excited about being asked to do this.  I’m always amazed at how many questions we get from the community.  The [...]

Crystal Dashboard and Presentation Design (Xcelsius 2008) Fix Pack 3.2 (FP3.2) Documentation Available!

As promised, we are letting you know first that the Crystal Dashboard and Presentation Design (Xcelsius 2008) Fix Pack 3.2 (FP3.2) Documentation is available to explore. There are two different documents available: SAP BusinessObjects Xcelsius 2008 Fix Pack 3.2 (FP3.2) What’s Fixed SAP BusinessObjects Xcelsius 2008 Fix Pack 3.2 (FP3.2) Release Notes2 We will follow [...]

Breaking NEWS!!! Crystal Dashboard and Presentation Design (Xcelsius 2008) Fix Pack 3.2 (FP3.2) released!

Hi Everyone, We are happy to announce the release of the Crystal Dashboard and Presentation Design (Xcelsius 2008) Fix Pack 3.2 (FP3.2) (See the official post by Matt Lloyd here)!! We were the first to announce its release on twitter yesterday and wanted to follow up with an official post. The Fix Pack must be [...]

The Future of Flash in the BI Space

With the recent back and forth battle between HTML5 and Flash and their place in the future gaining even more extensive tech-media coverage, we’ve been keeping a close ear to the arguments and have attentively followed both sides of the story since our core products and supporting technology rely heavily on Flash and Flex. As [...]

Mico’s 2010 Update – 3 New Xcelsius Gurus Must Have Books!

Hi All, I know it’s been some time since I’ve last posted and there is soooo much going on in the Xcelsius community. To start, we now have over 1,000 members in our LinkedIn group, over 600+ followers in Twitter and we just created a new LinkedIn group dedicated to the Xcelsius SDK, FleXcelsius…and the excitement [...]

FleXcelsius Boot Camp

Centigon Solutions will soon be announcing a FleXcelsius boot camp training opportunity for a limited number of participants, to take place at our San Diego location. We wanted to reach out in advance to gather preferences on what you would like to learn and any particular SDK pain points that you would like to have [...]

Xcelsius 2008 Fix Pack 3.1 (FP3.1) Documentation is Available!!

As promised, we are letting you know first that the Xcelsius Fix Pack 3.1 (FP3.1) Documentation is available to explore. There are two different documents available: SAP BusinessObjects Xcelsius 2008 FP3.1 What’s Fixed SAP BusinessObjects Xcelsius 2008 Fix Pack 3.1 Release Notes We will follow up with another post, once we finalize our evaluation!! Have [...]

Xcelsius 2008 Fix Pack 3.1 (FP3.1) is HERE!!

Hi Everyone, We want to welcome the much anticipated release of  Fix Pack 3.1 or FP3.1 as it is officially called! We were the first to  announce its release on twitter yesterday and wanted to follow up with an official post. The Fix Pack must be applied to Xcelsius 2008 SP3 (version: 5.3.0.0). If you [...]

Count Down to the Xcelsius Advanced Developer Workshop

Hi Everyone, So we are officially counting down to the Xcelsius Advanced Developer Workshop in Dallas, TX, on March 24-25. There are less than 9 days left and less than 5 seats available. Mico and Mike are prepared and look forward to the workshop and meeting all the attendees. For those of you who are [...]