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Publishing Xcelsius DashboardReports in Enterprise Portal

Applies to:

SAP Net Weaver 2004s, Xcelsius 2008. For more information, visit theBusiness Objects homepage.

Summary

This article is explains the sample Xcelsius Dashboard Reports and publishing those reports in EnterprisePortal.

Author: Phani Kumar Rayasam

Company: ITC InfoTech India Ltd (Bangalore/INDIA)

Created on:7 September 2011

Author Bio

Phani Kumar Rayasam is a SAP BI/BO Consultant currently working with ITC InfoTech India Pvt Ltd,Bangalore, India with skill sets of SAP Business Intelligence, Crystal Reports, WebI and Xcelsius2008.
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Publishing Xcelsius Dashboard Reports in Enterprise Portal


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Table of Contents

Introduction ......................................................................................................................................................... 3

Publishing the Dashboards ................................................................................................................................. 3

Related Content .................................................................................................................................................. 7

Disclaimer and Liability Notice ............................................................................................................................ 8


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Introduction

Xcelsius is a data visualization design tool that displays summary-level business data in a visually rich andintuitive format that allows users to analyze and interact with their data in order to make better businessdecisions. It uses the unique combination of Microsoft Excel, SAP BEx Queries, Info cubes, Crystal Reports,and WebI Reports through Live Office.

Publishing Dashboards in Enterprise portal brings rich experience to users as it gives more interactiveoutlook to end users.

Publishing the Dashboards

1. Design the Interactive Dashboard. Publish it using main menu > SAP> Publishto generateDashboards in .swf format from .xlf format.

2. Choose SAP> Launchoption to generate the dashboard in Internet Explorer to create a URL iView

that further helps to generate New Report.


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3. Log in to Enterprise portal. Use content administration and portal contents to create a business-specific folder. Right-click the folderand choose New> iViewas below.

4. Choose iView Templatefrom the IView wizard and then select URL IView from the template asdashboard is launched in web application as below.


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IView Name, ID along with Description has to be entered along with the source URL and follow thenext steps to create new URL iViews.

5. Create a Role by right-clicking the folder. Choose New> Rolesoption as below.


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6. Create the work set by right-clicking the folder. Choose New>Worksetoption as below.

7. Assign iViews to the workset and then the workset to the respective roles.

8. To display the Role Tab in the Main Menu of Portal Content, choose properties of Role and worksetand make entry point property as Yes. View the dashboards by clicking Previewas below.


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Related Content

Error While Creating iViews Using SAP Connector

For more information, visit theBusiness Objects homepage
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Disclaimer and Liability Notice

This document may discuss sample coding or other information that does not include SAP official interfaces and therefore is notsupported by SAP. Changes made based on this information are not supported and can be overwritten during an upgrade.

SAP will not be held liable for any damages caused by using or misusing the information, code or methods suggested in this document,and anyone using these methods does so at his/her own risk.

SAP offers no guarantees and assumes no responsibility or liability of any type with respect to the content of this technical article orcode sample, including any liability resulting from incompatibility between the content within this document and the materials andservices offered by SAP. You agree that you will not hold, or seek to hold, SAP responsible or liable with respect to the content of thisdocument.

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