One of the features that made me fall in love with Xcelsius (Dashboards) back in the day was the ability to easily show and hide components based on selections made in other components. Later on Xcelsius introduced the ‘Tabs’ component in 2008 and made life even easier for showing multiple components dynamically. However, I still […]
Tag: Visualization
SAP Lumira 1.17 Now Available with Direct Access to BEx Queries
I was pleasantly surprised this morning when I clicked on SAP Lumira and saw the following message pop up; SAP Lumira 1.17 is now generally available for download directly from the tool without even having to go to the SAP Marketplace (this feature has been available for some time, Kudos to SAP!). I have been eagerly […]
Complex Calculations Made Simpler with Web Intelligence
There are many hidden talents within Web Intelligence that can assist with massaging your data and bringing out relationships within your numbers without ever having to export your data outside to another tool, such as Microsoft Excel. One of those underutilized functions is PREVIOUS(). It simply returns the previous value of an object. While Web […]
Is Xcelsius The New Deski? Die Xcelsius Die!
Xcelsius is the new Desktop Intelligence
Web Intelligence Hack: Updating the color palette for a single report
SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 allows you to define a custom corporate color palette for use with Web Intelligence charts. To begin, modify …\SAP BusinessObjects\SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 4.0\images\VisualizationConfig.template.xml then save it as VisualizationConfig.xml in the images folder and restart the web application server (Apache Tomcat, et. al.) so the changes take effect. <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?> <CONFIG> <!– Rename this […]
VIDEO: How to Custom Group Objects in SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence 4.1 SP2
I still remember the first time I found out I couldn’t group objects in Web Intelligence like I could with Desktop Intelligence (Deski). I was in a training session and another student asked the instructor where on the toolbar was the button to group dimensions. It was just assumed the functionality would be there. When […]
SAP Lumira 1.12 Initial Impressions
I’ve enjoyed the pace at which SAP Lumira has come along over the last year. Like most, I’ve been chomping the bit for v1.12 to release since we got a glimpse of it at ASUG SBOUC in September. I caught a tweet today that it was out on the SAP Market Place (not yet available […]
Sorting through the Ranks
When BI4 came out back in 2011, one of the tools that saw an overhaul from the ground up was Web Intelligence. If you are not familiar with Web Intelligence, it truly is the ‘jack of all trades’ or ‘swiss army knife’ of the suite. And if you are familiar with the tool then you […]