Can xcelsius use crystal report instance to display data?

HI experts,
Here we use live office with crystal reports to feed data to xcelsius flash. We schedule the crystal reports every day, and want to use data of the crystal report instance when user open a xcelsius flash.
Can this be realized ?
thanks a lot !

Hi Sam,
You can do this. Go to Live office and goto to the "Properties for all objects" and select the refresh tab.
Select the option as "Latest Instance" for refresh option and then save the Excel sheet and re-import into Xcelsius.
This would refresh the data from the latest instance of Crystal report.
Thanks,
Amit.

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