Which Xcelsius (SBOD) version do I have?

Posted by Xavier Hacking on Oct 16, 2010

SAP released the third fixpack for Xcelsius (SBOD) service pack (SP) 3 last week. This is the eighth update since the initial release of Xcelsius 2008. You might be wondering which version you are using right now.

To see which versions you have, go to the Help menu and choose About Xcelsius.... In the table below you can find an overview of all releases.

Release	Version	Build
Xcelsius 2008 (RTM)	5.0.0.99	12,1,0,121
Xcelsius 2008 SP1	5.0.0.99	12,1,0,247
Xcelsius 2008 FixPack 1.1	5.1.1.0	12,1,1,344
Xcelsius 2008 SP2	5.2.0.0	12,2,0,608
Xcelsius 2008 FixPack 2.1	5.2.1.0	12,2,1,66
Xcelsius 2008 SP3	5.3.0.0	12,3,0,670
Xcelsius 2008 FixPack 3.1	5.3.1.0	12,3,1,776
Xcelsius 2008 FixPack 3.2	5.3.2.0	12,3,2,864
Xcelsius 2008 FixPack 3.3	5.3.3.0	12,3,3,973
Xcelsius 2008 FixPack 3.4	5.3.4.0	12,3,4,103
Xcelsius 2008 FixPack 3.5	5.3.4.0	12,3,5,1128
Xcelsius 2008 SP4	5.4.0.0	12,4,0,11,66

Posted in: SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards, Xcelsius

Xcelsius 2008 Fix Pack 3.3 (Windows 7 support) available

Posted by Xavier Hacking on Oct 11, 2010

The SAP Xcelsius team (they still use the ‘old’ name themselves, lol) has release a new fix pack for Xcelsius 2008 SP3. It now fully supports Windows 7. You can get the download here and further information (release notes, fix-list) should be available in the next few days on this page.

To read the original announcement, go to the SDN-forum or just click the More-button below. It also includes some tips on installing and running this version of Xcelsius.

SAP BusinessObjects 4 teaser and sneak preview videos

Posted by Xavier Hacking on Oct 10, 2010

SAP uploaded two new videos on the upcoming SAP BusinessObjects 4 release. First a smooth teaser and second a longer video showing some of the (new) features of this release. This second video shows us a new Query Browser for Xcelsius (SCDD), which seems to enable the creation of direct Universe queries from within Xcelsius. Also a Query Prompt Selector component is demonstrated.

Posted in: SAP, SAP BusinessObjects, SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards, Xcelsius

New GMaps Plugin v2 for Xcelsius try-out

Posted by Xavier Hacking on Aug 14, 2010

This summer Centigon Solutions released the latest version of their Google Maps add-on for Xcelsius (uh, SAP Crystal Solutions Presentation Design…). Although I liked the first version of this add-on, I really missed an option for showing regional alerts. You still had to use the standard Xcelsius map-components which did support this feature.

In this post I will show the steps you have to take to create a dashboard showing a Google Map with regions that have alert colors and are clickable with some drill-down functionality like the example below.

Update: First check this post concerning changes on the Google Maps API.

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Twitter, Flash & HTML5

Posted by Xavier Hacking on Jun 14, 2010

Twitter is great. It keeps me up-to-date on what is happening in the world and nowadays I get my information directly from the source! The added value of those traditional, old-school newspaper/TV journalists is decreasing day by day. This is a good thing. I see most journalists as nothing more than a filter, tweaking their opinions into the real facts. With Twitter the people that I see as important or interesting are the modern journalists. They are my personal groups of journalists. And if they don’t deliver quality, I just unfollow them.

Tonight I read two nice tweets. First I learned that someone wrote an app/hack to use flash on the iPhone/iPad (iOS). If this thing really works this would be great news for dashboard development with Xcelsius SAP Crystal Dashboard Design Personal Edition. Finally the development of dashboards for the iPhone and iPad could begin. Let’s hope so. Here is the article with the video ‘proof’.

Next I read a tweet about the differences between Adobe Flash and HTML5. Apple favours HTML5 and gives a nice showcase on its website (Safari 5 required). But what exactly is HTML5 and how can Flash and HTML5 be compared? Focus published this cool A4-sized overview.