Comments on: Simulating Traffic Lights using Xcelsius. Literally!

By: sagar

sagar — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 09:13:01 +0000

Hi Kalyan,

I am having a problem with the Dynamic Binding. I am getting data dynamically,used vlookup condition to look for a particular name and displays a color based on the name in a graph.it is working fine with the static data. But whenever i am getting data from the database that colors are not showing and showing the graph with Black Colors. Is this Dynamic binding cannot applicable for Pie,Stacked Bar Charts? Could You please help on this?

Regards,
Sagar Reddy

By: Kalyan Verma

Kalyan Verma — Wed, 26 May 2010 11:35:51 +0000

@Darryn Use the Play Selector from the Selectors category (Not Play Control). Use the Row/Column insert type to acheive the desired functionality. Set the duration (in seconds) to give u 1min intervals (E.g. If you have 6 items, set the duration to 6×60=360 sec).

Unfortunately you cannot bind the selected item for a pie chart. You can only select a series number in design time which is pretty much hardcoded.

By: Darryn

Darryn — Wed, 26 May 2010 08:25:48 +0000

Could anyone help me figure out how to play pie chart with play control, just cant figure it out.

I have data dynamically displayed when you select each section of the pie chart, but I would like the pie chart to play i.e. section to be selected at 1 min intervals.

Also the properties of my play control seem different to what I have seen in examples – using SP3 Xcelsius 2008 Engage.

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 05:13:43 +0000

@Josh Interesting approach

By: Simon

Simon — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 18:59:25 +0000

@Yash,
Why use a bubble chart when you have the Icon Component?

By: Josh Tapley

Josh Tapley — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 14:03:12 +0000

Vlookups tend to slow the file in general and seem to cause odd scripting errors on occassion. The match and offset functions appear to be more efficient.

I also recommend skipping pivot tables (or at least paste-special-values in the version that you import into Xcelsius).

By: Jesse Aden

Jesse Aden — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 11:19:23 +0000

I am in Austria, and we have a bit of a different street light system… I used your file and created my own simple version with vlookup and values. I think it would be more complicated using the new color set-up as you did.
Is it faster processor-wise or something?

Also, is there somewhere to upload this version, or no?

By: Kalyan Verma

Kalyan Verma — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 14:57:36 +0000

@All, I’ve updated the post with the Download link to the Source XLF. Make sure you are running SP 3

By: Kalyan Verma

Kalyan Verma — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 14:56:51 +0000

@Josh Interesting approach

By: Josh Tapley

Josh Tapley — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 13:11:46 +0000

I would do the following:

Establish 9 icons and link them each to cells in a row: A1, B1, C1, etc. Next setup alerts (disable auto color) for 0,1,2 and 3 to be black, green, yellow and red respectively. You then hide the play selector using dynamic visibility.

The play selector would use the row insert into row one from a table with all of the defined interations as displayed in the sample table below. You could use nested if statements to remove the table, but that might be more trouble than it’s worth.

100003003003
020003003003
003003003003
etc.