by Mico Yuk | 
We get so many questions from new users asking how to use the ‘Dynamic Visibility’ feature in Xcelsius 4.5 & 2008 that we created a short video tutorial!
Before you Press ‘Play’ lets define Dynamic Visibility in Xcelsius: The ability to choose when a specific component is shown on the screen.
The most common method is to use one of the Xcelsius selector components such as the combo box, list view, or toggle button to allow the user to select what he/she wants to see on the dashboard at a given time. There are a few ways to accomplish this, but our tutorial covers the basics. Enjoy!
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Need more references? See below for three other websites on the topic:
- SCN: Dynamic Visibility Functionality
- Ryan Goodman: Selector Dynamic Visibility
- MyXcelsius.com: Component Layering, Dynamic Visibility, and the Canvas Container
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Mico Yuk is a 2010 SAP Mentor and the founder of the Xcelsius Guru Network, the Everything Xcelsius blog, and co-founder of Benchmarkers Business Intelligence. To learn more about her, please visit our About Us page.
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That was a wonderful video.
Thanks for sharing the information with us. Wish to see more complex ones in future.
Rahul
Glad you enjoyed it. You may also want to subscribe to our YouTube channel on the right! Lots of great videos from Mike Alexander there!
Mico
your help is always helpful.
thank you
vijay kumar
Hi Vijay,
We removed your personal info from the Comment to avoid you getting spammed. Thanks for the feedback on the video. Fore more tips and tricks videos we recommend going to our Youtube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/XcelsiusGurus
Hope this helps!
Thanks,
Mico
I am struggling learning how to do dynamic visibility… googled it… found your video… within 5 min solved my problem…. this is really helpfull… thanks for sharing
Glad this helped. Dynamic visibility is always a struggle for beginners.
Mico
Very simple but effective. It can be used for many purposes, mine today is to allow drill down within the same chart, because I cannot add one more component to show separately drill down figures. Well done!
Glad it helped.
Mico
I was wondering if you had anything on doing multiple selction dynamic visibility. Say I have a label based menu that had label 1, label 2, and label 3 in it. I have another label based menu that has 2 labels, 2010 and 2009.
The label menu that has label 1, 2, and 3 puts a number in A1, and the 2010, 2009 menu puts info in cell b1.
I have a formula in C1 that says =if((and(A1=1,b1=1),1,2)). It works fine in giving me the numbers I need, but it seems like the charts dont read it very well.
It was awesome.. thanks..
Wow, simple when you know how!
BTW – loved your sweet accent
Thanks Andy! Glad it helped. I plan to an updated version along with more free videos in 2011.
Mico
Very helpful Mico. Great job
Glad that it helped!
Mico
One of the easiest to follow and to the point tutorial I have seen on Xcelsius!! Well Done!
Great tutorial Mico, thank you for sharig your knowledge.
very simple and very useful …. thanks
Glad it helped !
Santosh
very useful and well explained! Thank you so much!!
goood explanantion !!