Trial, Xcelsius, Crystal and SAP trouble

Post Author: Leandor
CA Forum: Xcelsius and Live Office
Dear friends,I'm new to Xcelsius world.I'm working with a SAP BEX query which feeds a Crystal Report (with two parameters, start date and end date in string format)I've used Live Office to create an Excel with this report imported into, and the two parameters points to two cells in the excel file.The live office refresh settings are: - refresh on demandThe Xcelsius connector is setted to refresh report on a trigger event (on change on a combo box writing value into an excel cell)The problem is: changing the value on the combo cell the refresh of the crystal report does not start.I can exclude errors with the combo, because i can see the values of parameters cells and trigger cell changing...I use:Xcelsius 4.5 TRIAL - Application Version 4.2.4.4 - File Version 1.1.0.2 - Addon Live Office Pack 1.0.1.3 / XRS Component 1.0.0.7 / Xcelsius SharePoint PackLive office 11.5.8.826Crystal Report XI Rel 2 - Product Version 11.5.8.826BO XI rev 2 sp 2BO Integration KIT for SAPAny idea? Help?May the TRIAL version not fully support Crystal reports ?Thank you in advance for your help

Hi,
the direct connectivity from Xcelsius to SAP BW is only supported on NW 7.01 SP03 or higher. For BW 3.1 you would have to use Live Office.
XC, CR and LO Part 1 of 4
/people/ingo.hilgefort/blog/2008/10/03/businessobjects-and-sap-part-1-of-4--creating-a-xcelsius-dashboard-on-top-of-sap-bi
XC, CR and LO Part 2 of 4
/people/ingo.hilgefort/blog/2008/10/07/businessobjects-and-sap-part-2-of-4--creating-a-xcelsius-dashboard-on-top-of-sap-bi
XC, CR and LO Part 3 of 4
/people/ingo.hilgefort/blog/2008/10/07/businessobjects-and-sap-part-3-of-4--creating-a-xcelsius-dashboard-on-top-of-sap-bi
XC, CR and LO Part 4 of 4
/people/ingo.hilgefort/blog/2008/10/10/businessobjects-and-sap-part-4-of-4--creating-a-xcelsius-dashboard-on-top-of-sap-bi
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