Category Archives: Connection
How to get a Sharepoint List in Xcelsius and publish outside Sharepoint
If eg. Treasury is maintaining a Tax Rate by country list in the Corporate Sharepoint directory, you can import that list into Xcelsius for use in your dashboard without setting up a portal provider as you do not want to … Continue reading
“Empty” value in optional prompt in Bex query
I finally found the solution for the issue with the optional prompts and the empty value string when connecting through BICS to a Bex query. Unfortunately BW does not view the Excel formula =”” as an empty string as thus … Continue reading
Maximum character output size limit reached
If you come across the following error in Xcelsius with either with QaaWS or BIWS (WebI): Maximum character output size limit reached. Contact your BusinessObjects administrator. (Error: ERR_WIS_30272) 2 things you might try to solve it: 1. This error can … Continue reading
Top 10 Guidelines for Creating Web Services for Xcelsius
I came acros a document on my laptop which I got from BusinessObjects when I had trouble connecting a webservice to Xcelsius (project in 2009, so must have been Xcelsius 2008 SP1 or so). I thought I will post it … Continue reading
Values send as text by BIWS connection
I have spend some frustating hours trying to figure out, why my number format did not work properly in my preview mode. Data was brought in the dashboard by BIWS connection. I thought it had to do with the locale, … Continue reading
Difference BICS connection Xcelsius 2008/2011 and BOE 4.0
Since Xcelsius 2008 SP2 it is possible to connect to a Bex-query through a BICS connection. You could publish your dashboard on the SAP portal (with at least Netweaver 7.01 SP5 installed). As the BOE 3.1 platform does not know … Continue reading
