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Today, my team released a free component into our labs page called Input Text. This super-simple component is something that we have used for a long time, and I asked my team to package it up for the community to use and distribute. The driver for this effort was a recent requirement for auto-fill supplied [...]
Merging Xcelsius Projects
09/26/2011 by 2 Comments
You put blood sweat and tears into a dashboard design element and want to re-use it in another project. This question often arises, so if you are not aware, you can copy and paste components between 2 instances of Xcelsius. There are a few best practices to accomplish this successfully, ensuring the copy and paste [...]
Creating a Compass in Xcelsius
09/24/2011 by 2 Comments
This week I was asked to provide the source file to a compass that I built in Xcelsius for the SAP 505 Races several years ago. I figured I would share the source files with the community in case if you have a need to show a compass in a dashboard. Overall the process is [...]
Current time in Xcelsis using Yahoo time service
07/09/2011 by 5 Comments
If you need the current time in a dashboard, the Excel formula is NOW() is useful for many scenarios. If the local PC time is not adequate I found a slick Yahoo web service that will provide me with a single XML node with current time: http://developer.yahoo.com/util/timeservice/V1/getTime.html 1. First I used XML Maps in Excel [...]
Google Charts Generator with Xcelsius
12/27/2010 by 20 Comments
One of the technologies that I discovered earlier this year is Google Charts. The API is brilliant allowing web developers to have a free charting framework at their disposal without a lot of work. I used Google Charts in an older GMaps Plugin sales demo where I nested Google Charts inside of a map Info [...]
