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Beginners guide to BI Dashboards

1. Xcelsius 2. Working with Dashboards

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Introduction to Xcelsius
Xcelsius or BI Dashboard is a standalone windows application, which is used for data visualization. The tool could alter a flat excel sheet to powerful, flexible, interactive and impressive presentations. It uses excel data sheet to publish interactive reports as flash files (swf). . Xcelsius projects are saved locally as .xlf files.
Toolbar

Component Browser Canvas

Properties Panel

Object Browser

Excel Spreadsheet

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1) Component Browser It shows the components that can be added to the visualization. Views can be changed as per the developer need.

2) Canvas This is the work area where developer will place all the components that needed for visualization. Background color can be changed using Canvas Properties. Components can be placed on to the canvas by either drag & drop or by clicking the component and selecting the space in canvas.

After selecting your component, if we need to eliminate the surrounding white area in the canvas one can use Fit Canvas to Components button on the toolbar. To shrink or grow the canvas background one can use Increase Canvas or Decrease Canvas button.

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Canvas/Document properties can be changed from the File menu in the toolbar, like document properties, Canvas preferences etc and also using Properties panel.

3) Properties Panel Here we can format/edit the properties of the component selected in the canvas area.

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General Tab It contains the general properties for the component selected. Here we can change the Title, subtitle, labels, data source values to be selected in the excel sheet etc.

Insertion Tab This is to add drill down capabilities for the chart

Behavior Tab Contains settings for visualization behavior of the component selected.

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Appearance Tab To change the esthetic settings of the component selected

Alerts will specify intended/unintended deviations in data

4) Object Browser This is to navigate between your objects/components. One can select, hide, show, cut, copy, paste, delete, bring forward, move back, group, ungroup, lock, unlock and access the properties of the components.

This can be also be accessed directly from component context menu on individual components in the canvas

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Grouping Components Select several components, R.C on any of the component and select Group from context menu.

Hiding Components

Locking components - Components can be locked in the canvas, so to prevent interaction with them when working with other items.

Delete/Rename Components- One can directly delete or rename the components from the Object browser or context menu. No need to un-group grouped items for performing individual deletion of components.

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