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This is Part III of the “Live Dashboards using BO LiveOffice” Series. In Part I, Kalyan Verma Introduces LiveOffice and its connection with Xcelsius 2008. In Part II Muhammed Ismail, walks us through the steps on “How to Create a LiveOffice Document and connect it to BusinessObjects Universe data”. In this final Part of the series, Muhammed walks us through the steps on How to bind Xcelsius Components to LiveOffice data and create a live dashboard.

Note: Muhammed used Xcelsius 4.5 to achieve this. He will be posting an Xcelsius 2008 version of the same procedure soon.

This article discussed below shows countries in the Asian region that participated in a survey. The live data is fed from the Business Objects universe; when the number of Asian countries in the universe data increases or decrease the map chart color will change and the number of countries will get updated.

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This is Part II of the “Live Dashboards using BO LiveOffice” Series. In Part I, Kalyan Verma Introduces LiveOffice and its connection with Xcelsius 2008. In this post Muhammed Ismail, walks us through the steps on “How to Create a LiveOffice Document and connect it to BusinessObjects Universe data”.

To create Live Office document first open the formatted Excel template. Set the BO Enterprise credentials by selecting Live Office, Options from MS Excel.

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In this Series, Muhammed Ismail, an Xcelsius Developer at a Fortune 500 company, walks us through the steps on “How to create live dashboards using BusinessObjects LiveOffice and Xcelsius 2008”.

This is a three part series. In Part I, Kalyan Verma, gives a brief introduction to LiveOffice and the connection between LiveOffice and Xcelsius. In Part II, Muhammed focuses on “How to Create a LiveOffice Document and connect it to BusinessObjects Universe data” and finally, in Part III, he will be focusing on “How to bind LiveOffice data to Xcelsius Components and create a live Dashboard”.

What is BusinessObjects LiveOffice?

LiveOffice is a Add-On provided by BusinessObjects that will enable the users to integrate BO Universe data with Microsoft Office, embedding up-to-the-minute corporate data in Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel, and Word documents. LiveOffice is included as part of the BusinessObjects Enterprise Premium license and the Business Objects Edge Series. It is also available as an add-on to BusinessObjects Enterprise Professional.

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