The first Workshop in 2009 was a huge hit and the Tickets were sold out like hot cakes. You don’t want to miss this year. With their exceptional background and experience in Xcelsius, Mike Alexander and Mico Yuk are the perfect duo to get you started and teach you some of the advanced techniques in Xcelsius 2008.
On Day 1, Mico and Mike are going to focus primarily on “Professional Dashboard Design” and “Enhancements using Excel Techniques” respectively. Day 2 is going to be all connectivity. Mico will get you familiarize with Basic Connectivity Techniques and later Mike will delve into the Advanced Connectivity Techniques. (Full Agenda). The best part is that the last 90min is scheduled for Q&A, where participants are encouraged to ask questions related to specific projects.
Yes, the much awaited SP3 for Xcelsius 2008 is out there. Follow the below instructions to download and install. This is a big update from SAP. It’s more than a regular Service Pack that you’ve seen in the past. It’s not just bug fixes, it has a bunch of new features that we all were asking for ever since 2008 was released.
Click on “Get Crystal Reports, Crystal Reports Server, and Xcelsius downloads”
Select Xcelsius, 2008 and Service Pack and click search
Click to download the Service Pack
Things to note:
The Xcelsius SP3 is a Cumulative Service Pack not an incremental. That means, you need to uninstall the existing version of Xcelsius on your machine and then run the executable that you have downloaded.
While installing please keep the Key code ready. The installation will ask you to enter at at the beginning. This is the same key code that you might have received from SAP when you purchased the license.
I recently recorded and Produced a bunch of Xcelsius Basics Videos for SAP for their Xcelsius 2008 Channel on YouTube. Please visit http://www.youtube.com/Xcelsius2008 to view the channel and get started with Xcelsius 2008. Hope you will all like them. I’m planning to add more, so please feel free to Subscribe to the Channel on YouTube.
Also, send me some interesting topics on which I can create short videos on Tips and Tricks in Xcelsius 2008.
Thanks Srinivas and David for posting some alternatives on Conditional formatting. Sounds like good options. Here is a quick trick that can help you in situations where you don’t have dynamic targets which keep changing frequently. For example, if you have a measure that you want to show the RAG (Red, Amber and Green) status based on the value (Negative-Red, 0-Amber and Positive-Green) or based on a set specific target, then I would suggest the following approach demonstrated by Mike Alexander of the Xcelsius Gurus Network.
