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Publishing Xcelsius Dashboard
Reports in Enterprise Portal
Applies to:
SAP Net Weaver 2004s, Xcelsius 2008. For more information, visit the Business Objects homepage.
Summary
This article is explains the sample Xcelsius Dashboard Reports and publishing those reports in Enterprise
Portal.

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 Xcelsius
2008.



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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 and
intuitive format that allows users to analyze and interact with their data in order to make better business
decisions. 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 interactive
outlook to end users.
Publishing the Dashboards
1. Design the Interactive Dashboard. Publish it using main menu > SAP > Publish to generate
Dashboards in .swf format from .xlf format.

2. Choose SAP > Launch option 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 folder and choose New > iView as below.


4. Choose iView Template from the IView wizard and then select URL IView from the template as
dashboard 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 the
next steps to create new URL iViews.


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


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6. Create the work set by right-clicking the folder. Choose New >Workset option 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 workset
and make entry point property as Yes. View the dashboards by clicking Preview as below.

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Related Content
Error While Creating iViews Using SAP Connector
For more information, visit the Business 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 not
supported 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 or
code sample, including any liability resulting from incompatibility between the content within this document and the materials and
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