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Using BI Web Services in Xcelsius Part 2

Using BI Web Services in Xcelsius Part 2

In this post I will show you how to publish content from Web Intelligence Rich Client as a web service. This… [more]

Using BI Web Services in Xcelsius Part 2

Using BI Web Services in Xcelsius Part 2

In this post I will show you how to publish content from Web Intelligence Rich Client as a web service. This… [more]

Using BI Web Services in Xcelsius Part 1

Using BI Web Services in Xcelsius Part 1

As of SP2 in BusinessObjects XI 3.1 a new feature is available - BI Web Services, which enables users… [more]

Using BI Web Services in Xcelsius Part 1

Using BI Web Services in Xcelsius Part 1

As of SP2 in BusinessObjects XI 3.1 a new feature is available - BI Web Services, which enables users… [more]

How To Print Xcelsius Dashboards (SAP Crystal Dashboard Design)

How To Print Xcelsius Dashboards (SAP Crystal Dashboard Design)

I often get the question: "How do I print my dashboard showing exactly the changes I have made to… [more]

03 Aug 10 Using BI Web Services in Xcelsius Part 2

In this post I will show you how to publish content from Web Intelligence Rich Client as a web service.

This is the second post in a series of how to use BI Web Services in Xcelsius. Click here to read the first post

Let’s get straight to business!

  1. Open Web Intelligence Rich Client
    Notice the new “Show BI services” option on the right

31 Jul 10 Using BI Web Services in Xcelsius Part 1

As of SP2 in BusinessObjects XI 3.1 a new feature is available – BI Web Services, which enables users to create web services directly from Web Intelligence (Rich Client only at the moment).

This is a very interesting feature for developers of Xcelsius (Dashboard Design) dashboards.
Until now, the ability to consume Web Intelligence documents, or single objects within a Web Intelligence document, has only been possible using BusinessObjects… Continue reading

20 Jul 10 Business Objects Designer – Multi-language universes

In this post, I will give a few examples of multi-language (ML) universe scenarios, and provide examples of how each scenario can be handled in Business Objects. Continue reading

21 Jun 10 How To Print Xcelsius Dashboards (SAP Crystal Dashboard Design)

I often get the question:

“How do I print my dashboard showing exactly the changes I have made to the sliders, selectors etc. in the model?

I guess people still ask the question because they don’t realise, that since the 2008 version of Xcelsius (SAP Crystal Dashboard Design) SAP has included a component to handle exactly this task:
The Print Button.
Create and share data presentations and dashboards… Continue reading

17 Jun 10 Xcelsius 2008 Fix Pack 3.2 (FP3.2) released

You can now download the Fix Pack from SAPs website.

The text below is quoted from this page: Xcelsius 2008 Fix Pack 3.2…
Xcelsius 2008 Fix Pack 3.2 (FP3.2) is now available from Service Marketplace and the support download site: http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/boc/downloads

This Fix Pack must be applied to Xcelsius 2008 SP3 (version: 5.3.0.0) or FP3.1: Xcelsius 2008 SP3