Connecting to External Sources

I'm fairly new to Business Objects and XCelsius so my terminology isn't great at this point. Recently we had a universe designed on top of a data store and I have been using both Live Office and QAAWS within XCelsius to connect to the data store. I can then export as a SWF and upload to our internal website. The SWF automatically updates as data from the data store is refreshed. Unfortunately there is some data that is needed on the XCelsius dashboard that is not available in the data store.
The data that is unavailable in the data store is stored in Excel spreadsheets throughout a network shared drive. I am unable to reference these spreadsheets at this point. I have tried a direct link using an equal to cell formula as I normally would from one spreadsheet to another. This produces the result while in XCelsius but does not produce anything when in preview mode or exported. I have also tried creating a link to external data within XCelsius using the Data->From Text option. This almost gets me what I want but I would need to open the XCelsius file and export to swf each time the data needed refreshed. I would like to be able to connect to these external spreadsheets and have the most recent data without opening XCelsius each time, exporting to SWF, and uploadling to the website. Does anyone have a solution to this?

Hi,
You have two options (that I can think of).
1. Put a universe on top of the Excel files. Google will tell you how, but you may run into troubles with users editing the spreadsheets. I've never had luck with this, but have never persevered.
2. Use an Excel sheet as the source for a Webi report. This can only be done in the rich client, but will continue to work if you schedule the report, provided that the Excel format doesn't change. Make sure you reference the file as
servername\share\data.xls (xlsx is not supported). I would have an Excel file on the BOBJ server that has formulas that reference the other Excel sheets, this might avoid problems with file permissions, and allows you to arrange data as you like.
You would then use Live Office to connect to the webi report.
You didn't ask, but personally I prefer BI Services over Live Office, check it out if you have the time (best used if on SP3, preferably SP4). This compares them and QaaWS too: http://blog.davidg.com.au/2011/04/live-office-vs-qaaws-vs-bi-services.html

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