Do you want a tooltip to appear only for a brief period of time on your dashboard and then disappear? Here is a trick to achieve that using Dynamic Visibility and the Play Controller in Xcelsius 2008. I recently posted this on SAP Crystal Reports and Dashboard Solutions Facebook page. Click Here.
Xcelsius Fix Pack 3.2 Released and ready for download!
Yes, it’s out there to download. You need to have either Xcelsius SP3 or SP3 FP3.1 already installed on your client machine before installing Fix Pack 3.2. Also, a word of caution while downloading the Fix Pack, make sure you download the correct version. When you go to the downloads page you will find 2 variants:
- Xcelsius Present 2008 Fix Pack 3.2, for Xcelsius Present version
- Xcelsius Enterprise 2008 Fix Pack 3.2 for Engage and Enterprise versions.
Please use the following instructions to download Xcelsius Fix Pack 3.2:
- Click here to launch the downloads page
- Click on “Get Crystal Reports, Crystal Reports Server, and Xcelsius downloads”
- Select Xcelsius, 2008 and Hot Fix and click search
- Click to download the appropriate Service Pack
Once installed, the version number should change from 5.3.1.0 (5.3.0.0 if SP3) to 5.3.2.0.
What’s fixed and Release documents are now available for download. We have just installed it and will be testing during the next few days. We will try our best to give you our first impressions in the subsequent posts. Subscribe now and you will never miss it.
Get SAP Crystal Presentation Design for Free!
Yes, you heard it right. FREE. For a limited time SAP is offering the Crystal Presentation Design (formerly known as Xcelsius Present) for Free. Although there is no data connectivity option in SAP Crystal Presentation Design, it is still a powerful and useful tool to convert your existing Excel data into interactive dashboards. So rush to the SAP Online store and download it for free. Hurry, the offer might not last long 
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SAP Crystal Presentation Design
Xcelsius FIFA World Cup 2010 Match Finder
No matter even if Soccer is not your kind of sport or how much ever busy you are, It’s hard to stay away from all the buzz that the Soccer world cup creates. So if you want to know when and where your favorite team is going to play next, check out this Xcelsius Match Finder. I’ve used the Google maps plug-in 2.0 for Xcelsius to show Stadium locations. It’s truly a powerful mapping tool for Xcelsius. More about it in future posts. Till then enjoy the World cup and use this dashboard for all FIFA match schedules . If you are wondering about the instructions to use it, don’t worry, I’ve put them all on the dashboard as a pop-up. Click on the below image to launch the dashboard.
17 Jun 2010: Update: Added live score updates.
Xcelsius SCN Challenge: Vancouver 2010 Vizualization
Recently I bumped into one of the Tweets which redirected me to this post on SCN. Jason Cao from SAP has challenged the Xcelsius community to come up with their own Visualization. He provided a sample data of a community poll results in which users took a poll on “What is your favorite Winter Olympic sport to follow?”. Although the data was only sufficient for a single chart, it threw an interesting challenge at the Xcelsius developer community to make it look more interesting.
Finally after 4 weeks, I got a breather from work to work on something interesting. However, I overlooked the deadline for submission and was late in submitting my version. Jason was kind enough to accept submissions after the deadline date, but to keep it fair the submissions made after the deadline will not be included in the competition but will be showcased on the challenge page.
I browsed through all the approved visualizations and found very few interesting. The idea was to improvise the chart, not to build a whole new dashboard on the Vancouver Olympics. I liked the enthusiasm and interest that the community members showed to make their mark. The idea was to take the minimum data provided and make it look more interesting and intuitive.
Here is what I came up with. Your comments, Suggestions and Criticism will be well received. Please use the comments section to shout it out.
