ASUG is offering a complimentary membership for North American customers and partners of the SAP BusinessObjects solution portfolio who operate in a non-ERP data environment. Whether you used to be a member of Global BusinessObjects Network (GBN) or not, you can now apply for membership. At first, I didn’t like the idea of SAP charging […]
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Universe Measures – Divide and Conquer
I was recently working with a universe and attempting to calculate a ratio between two numbers and coming up with some strange results. I wanted to share this with you so you didn’t waste as much time as I did trying to solve the problem. Always Returning Zero In my example, I had two measures […]
Xcelsius 2008 Runtime Messages…
If you need to troubleshoot Xcelsius 2008 runtime messages here is another link you might want to check out. I recently ran across an error message “2170” but was not able to find it on my original list of error messages, but then I finally found it. Click Here for the description of the runtime […]
When using Xcelsius 2008
I’ve been spending a lot of time of late getting myself familiar with the new interface of Xcelsius 2008 and I like it so much better than the older Xcelsius 4.5 interface. The embedded Excel spreadsheet is real dream and the new Data Manager, which manages all the external connections make it easy to keep […]
Upgrading to Xcelsius 2008 Tips & Tricks
I recently starting moving my BusinessObjects Enterprise Xcelsius models from XIr2 to XI 3.0. I have found that you may need to modify some of the elements after your model has been upgraded. Namely you will need to: Modify the URL of the web services Modify the URL of the embedded opendocument calls Modify the […]