Webinar Alert: Fast-Tracking your BI Career One Dashboard at a Time!

With all the new BI trends and themes evolving today, how do you keep your career on track?

We are excited to announce a free webinar, hosted by Xcelsius Guru and SAP Mentor, Mico Yuk and a surprise guest, that will provide a firsthand look at key trends and themes within the BI industry and insight on how to take your career to the next level.

During the webinar the following important topics will discussed:

1. The future of the BI Industry and how dashboards will play an integral part
2. How to navigate your career in 2011 and take it to the next level
3. How to monopolize the emerging mobile technologies

Your Next Steps:

Click here to Register!Mark the date on your calenders: Wednesday, December 15, 2010, at 1pm EST, 10am PSTAttend the webinar with your questions

We encourage anyone looking to get their BI career on track and to the next level to register today, as seats are limited. We look forward to this very exciting webinar!

Soo Tang Yuk fosters and evangelizes the ‘Xcelsius Gurus Network” and its communities. To find out more about her, please visit the About Us page.

Tags: BusinessObjects, Crystal Solutions, FleXcelsius, SAP Crystal Dashboard Design, Web Intelligence, Xcelsius 2008, Xcelsius Webinars

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Open document link in new window while dashboard does not re-initialise

Posted on 9 April 2010 4:31 pm.Femke

When you connect an OpenDocument statement to a URL button in Xcelsius and you apply the option New Window in the button properties, a new window is opened to show your WebI report (or Crystal report for that matter). However the report is not actually opened in that window, it is opened in your dashboard window, thus after closing or going back it forces the dashboard to reload again.

Solution:
add the following commands to the opendocument url:
sWindow=New&isApplication=true

the first command forces the link to open in a new window, the second command keeps your dashboard in the state it is in.

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SAP Crystal Dashboard Design

Following SAP’s free download offer for SAP Crystal Presentation Design, there’s now an excellent offer on the grown up product: SAP Crystal Dashboard Design. This extends functionality to make all the widgets available, plus live data, web services, all singing and dancing! If you have Crystal Reports Server with Named User Licenses, you can even publish dashboards for all your users to play with.

Headline offer is 45% off, I’m hoping to make that half price once I can get a confirmed cost price.

For those who’ve been struggling to keep up with the name changes, this used to be called Xcelsius.

Prices through, managed to trim to half price:
Single license £395 + VAT
Discounts available on 3+. Extra discounts for Government, Non-profit, Education
Order on 01759 369827 or via Pursuit Technology

View the original article here

Open document link in new window while dashboard does not re-initialise

Posted on 9 April 2010 4:31 pm.Femke

When you connect an OpenDocument statement to a URL button in Xcelsius and you apply the option New Window in the button properties, a new window is opened to show your WebI report (or Crystal report for that matter). However the report is not actually opened in that window, it is opened in your dashboard window, thus after closing or going back it forces the dashboard to reload again.

Solution:
add the following commands to the opendocument url:
sWindow=New&isApplication=true

the first command forces the link to open in a new window, the second command keeps your dashboard in the state it is in.

You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

View the original article here

Open document link in new window while dashboard does not re-initialise

Posted on 9 April 2010 4:31 pm.Femke

When you connect an OpenDocument statement to a URL button in Xcelsius and you apply the option New Window in the button properties, a new window is opened to show your WebI report (or Crystal report for that matter). However the report is not actually opened in that window, it is opened in your dashboard window, thus after closing or going back it forces the dashboard to reload again.

Solution:
add the following commands to the opendocument url:
sWindow=New&isApplication=true

the first command forces the link to open in a new window, the second command keeps your dashboard in the state it is in.

You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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Dashboard Developers Donating Time to Help Charities

On Monday October 18th, Reportapalooza introduced the entries to it’s fourth installment of the “virtual” reality show style campaign in a challenge dubbed “Dash for Charity”. In this challenge, the experts were paired with a charity to design and develop a visual model using SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards (Xcelsius). The goal of each dashboard was to help promote and spread awareness for each expert’s chosen charity.

For me, this has been the highlight of Reportapalooza. And I’ve been looking forward to this challenge since the beginning of the campaign. I love the idea of donating my time and energies on a project that could potentially make a difference in someone’s life. Hopefully all of our dashboards will be used to help the people that actually “help people” – long after the campaign is over.

As someone passionate about education, City Year Greater Philadelphia was an ideal selection for me because of their significant work with students in the Philadelphia area. City Year corps members are real life hero’s in the lives of thousands of students every year. With tutoring, mentoring, and positive “near peer” interaction, more students are graduating in Greater Philadelphia every year!

Please take a look at every dashboard entry then vote for your favorite. All are very worthy of your consideration. Use this link to access the showcase of entries. The winning dashboard wins $1,000 for their charity – so please choose wisely.

Below is the list of entries in no particular order:

City Year Greater Philadelphia - by Jim Brogden

NPower Pennsylvania – by Brian Durning

Career Wardrobe – developed by Jamie Oswald

Academy of Hope – developed by David Deitch

Ronald McDonald House BC – developed by Mico Yuk

Please feel free to email me with any questions.

Thank you!

Jim Brogden - jim.brogden@daugherty.com

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SAP Crystal Dashboard Design

Following SAP’s free download offer for SAP Crystal Presentation Design, there’s now an excellent offer on the grown up product: SAP Crystal Dashboard Design. This extends functionality to make all the widgets available, plus live data, web services, all singing and dancing! If you have Crystal Reports Server with Named User Licenses, you can even publish dashboards for all your users to play with.

Headline offer is 45% off, I’m hoping to make that half price once I can get a confirmed cost price.

For those who’ve been struggling to keep up with the name changes, this used to be called Xcelsius.

Prices through, managed to trim to half price:
Single license £395 + VAT
Discounts available on 3+. Extra discounts for Government, Non-profit, Education
Order on 01759 369827 or via Pursuit Technology

View the original article here

Dashboard Developers Donating Time to Help Charities

On Monday October 18th, Reportapalooza introduced the entries to it’s fourth installment of the “virtual” reality show style campaign in a challenge dubbed “Dash for Charity”. In this challenge, the experts were paired with a charity to design and develop a visual model using SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards (Xcelsius). The goal of each dashboard was to help promote and spread awareness for each expert’s chosen charity.

For me, this has been the highlight of Reportapalooza. And I’ve been looking forward to this challenge since the beginning of the campaign. I love the idea of donating my time and energies on a project that could potentially make a difference in someone’s life. Hopefully all of our dashboards will be used to help the people that actually “help people” – long after the campaign is over.

As someone passionate about education, City Year Greater Philadelphia was an ideal selection for me because of their significant work with students in the Philadelphia area. City Year corps members are real life hero’s in the lives of thousands of students every year. With tutoring, mentoring, and positive “near peer” interaction, more students are graduating in Greater Philadelphia every year!

Please take a look at every dashboard entry then vote for your favorite. All are very worthy of your consideration. Use this link to access the showcase of entries. The winning dashboard wins $1,000 for their charity – so please choose wisely.

Below is the list of entries in no particular order:

City Year Greater Philadelphia - by Jim Brogden

NPower Pennsylvania – by Brian Durning

Career Wardrobe – developed by Jamie Oswald

Academy of Hope – developed by David Deitch

Ronald McDonald House BC – developed by Mico Yuk

Please feel free to email me with any questions.

Thank you!

Jim Brogden - jim.brogden@daugherty.com

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SAP Crystal Dashboard Design

Following SAP’s free download offer for SAP Crystal Presentation Design, there’s now an excellent offer on the grown up product: SAP Crystal Dashboard Design. This extends functionality to make all the widgets available, plus live data, web services, all singing and dancing! If you have Crystal Reports Server with Named User Licenses, you can even publish dashboards for all your users to play with.

Headline offer is 45% off, I’m hoping to make that half price once I can get a confirmed cost price.

For those who’ve been struggling to keep up with the name changes, this used to be called Xcelsius.

Prices through, managed to trim to half price:
Single license £395 + VAT
Discounts available on 3+. Extra discounts for Government, Non-profit, Education
Order on 01759 369827 or via Pursuit Technology

View the original article here

SAP Crystal Dashboard Design

Following SAP’s free download offer for SAP Crystal Presentation Design, there’s now an excellent offer on the grown up product: SAP Crystal Dashboard Design. This extends functionality to make all the widgets available, plus live data, web services, all singing and dancing! If you have Crystal Reports Server with Named User Licenses, you can even publish dashboards for all your users to play with.

Headline offer is 45% off, I’m hoping to make that half price once I can get a confirmed cost price.

For those who’ve been struggling to keep up with the name changes, this used to be called Xcelsius.

Prices through, managed to trim to half price:
Single license £395 + VAT
Discounts available on 3+. Extra discounts for Government, Non-profit, Education
Order on 01759 369827 or via www.pursuittechnology.co.uk

Prices valid until end of October.

View the original article here

Dashboard Developers Donating Time to Help Charities

On Monday October 18th, Reportapalooza introduced the entries to it’s fourth installment of the “virtual” reality show style campaign in a challenge dubbed “Dash for Charity”. In this challenge, the experts were paired with a charity to design and develop a visual model using SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards (Xcelsius). The goal of each dashboard was to help promote and spread awareness for each expert’s chosen charity.

For me, this has been the highlight of Reportapalooza. And I’ve been looking forward to this challenge since the beginning of the campaign. I love the idea of donating my time and energies on a project that could potentially make a difference in someone’s life. Hopefully all of our dashboards will be used to help the people that actually “help people” – long after the campaign is over.

As someone passionate about education, City Year Greater Philadelphia was an ideal selection for me because of their significant work with students in the Philadelphia area. City Year corps members are real life hero’s in the lives of thousands of students every year. With tutoring, mentoring, and positive “near peer” interaction, more students are graduating in Greater Philadelphia every year!

Please take a look at every dashboard entry then vote for your favorite. All are very worthy of your consideration. Use this link to access the showcase of entries. The winning dashboard wins $1,000 for their charity – so please choose wisely.

Below is the list of entries in no particular order:

City Year Greater Philadelphia - by Jim Brogden

NPower Pennsylvania – by Brian Durning

Career Wardrobe – developed by Jamie Oswald

Academy of Hope – developed by David Deitch

Ronald McDonald House BC – developed by Mico Yuk

Please feel free to email me with any questions.

Thank you!

Jim Brogden - jim.brogden@daugherty.com

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How to implement an expiration date in an Xcelisus dashboard?

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Here is an Xcelsius/Excel trick that allows you, the developer, to set a validity period on a dashboard. This is great for sharing demos or giving a potential client an evaluation period.

1. Setup your Excel file as follows

Cell B1 enter your start dateCell B2 enter the Now() function to determine the current dateCell B3 use the Date() function to capture the year, month, and day. Then add the number of days that you want to make the dashboard viewableCell B4 use an IF() statement to compare the expiration date to the current date

2. Here you can get creative, however for this example I am going to keep it simple. Add a background component to the canvas and make sure it takes up the entire workspace.

3. Set the dynamic visibility of the background component to cell B4 and set the key as “expired”. Be sure to check the “Block mouse movements” found on the “General” tab of background properties.

4. Top your dashboard off with a pop-up box or watermark displaying how many days remaining in the evaluation period by taking the difference of cells B3 and B1.

There you have it, a simple solution to implementing a validity period within your dashboards.

Please feel free to download the sample Excel file

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