Comments on: List of Microsoft Excel functions supported in Xcelsius 2008

By: Dumb_Xcelsius

Dumb_Xcelsius — Thu, 10 May 2012 05:01:00 +0000

ROW and COLUMN are shown as supported functions in the Xcelsius Help document!! But in reality it does not support it!! Using Vlookup drastically slows down the report!!!! DUMB TOOL!!

By: Saad

Saad — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 11:21:06 +0000

Round works for me.

By: Fara

Fara — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 06:12:16 +0000

Hi, ROUND() is not working in my dashboard xcelsius 2008. is three any other w/around ..

By: Saad

Saad — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 10:25:40 +0000

INDIRECT() does not work …

By: James Garrity

James Garrity — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 13:43:31 +0000

Bernd,

DCountA does work! :

I had a similar issue with Xcelsius and DCOUNTA does work! NOTE: DCOUNTA does work, however, it doesn’t perform the same way that it does in Excel (which is very confusing). In my case, in excel when I left a criteria cell blank, it would basically omit that criteria. As if to say in SQL (Considering fields County, Industry and Class)

Select * From Table Where County = Wicomico, MD AND Industry = Retail

However, once compiled as an SWF it was as if it were saying:

Select * From Table Where County = Wicomico, MD AND Industry = Retail AND Class = “”

So…to make it work you must use the WILDCARD Operator * in the criteria cell to indicate ALL.

Select * From Table Where County = Wicomico, MD AND Industry = Retail AND Class = *

And it works…

See a modified example dashboard of the difference between * and “” at: http://staff.salisbury.edu/~jrgarrity/dcounta.swf
Download the Excel Model at: http://staff.salisbury.edu/~jrgarrity/dcounta.xls

See more DCOUNTA functionlity at:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-help/dcounta-HP005209050.aspx

By: Bernd

Bernd — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 07:42:57 +0000

Hello James,
thanks a lot for your feedback and the link. I suppose that I will have to set up my own little “database” to note all the undocumented problems unless SAP is able to provide us with such an information.
Bernd

By: James Garrity

James Garrity — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 21:16:22 +0000

SOLVED: DCOUNTA does work! NOTE: DCOUNTA does work, however, it doesn’t perform the same way that it does in Excel (which is very confusing). In my case, in excel when I left a criteria cell blank, it would basically omit that criteria. As if to say in SQL (Considering fields County, Industry and Class)

Select * From Table Where County = Wicomico, MD AND Industry = Retail

However, once compiled as an SWF it was as if it were saying:

Select * From Table Where County = Wicomico, MD AND Industry = Retail AND Class = “”

So…to make it work you must use the WILDCARD Operator * in the criteria cell to indicate ALL.

Select * From Table Where County = Wicomico, MD AND Industry = Retail AND Class = *

And it works…

See more DCOUNTA functionlity at:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-help/dcounta-HP005209050.aspx

By: James Garrity

James Garrity — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 20:16:17 +0000

Per this forum( http://forums.sdn.sap.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1667292 ), and from my head-wall banging experience just now I believe DCOUNTA is NOT SUPPORTED, or not in its full capacity. My DCOUNTA works beautifully in my spreadsheet, and it is a very robust function, but when I preview my dashboard it doesn’t deliver.

Have you run across this? If this is true, perhaps you should remove it from your list (as I and I’m sure others use it as absolute truth – a great reference).

Cheers,

Jim

By: Bernd

Bernd — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 16:17:42 +0000

Hello everybody,
yesterday I have wasted a lot of time trying to create a Xcelsius 2008 dashboard by using an excel-spreadsheet with arrays. Thanks to your website I now have learned about the problem xcelsius has with arrays. However, can you tell me, whether there exists a document/information about all the other “excel-incompatibilities” of xcelsius in addition of the list of not supported excel-functions!? Thanks in advance for your reply.

By: Kalyan Verma

Kalyan Verma — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 13:21:16 +0000

@Fred, no info yet on the array function. We will be one of the first to break the news once available. Stay tuned. Thanks