Xcelsius 2008 Connect to universe

Hi:
     I m is the fresh in BO area. I install the BusinessObjects XI 3.1 and Xcelsius 2008,
     I create universe , and develop same Webi report in the infoview.
     now , i wanna use Xcelsius 2008 connect to universe ,
    then use universe as the dataSource.
    but when i open Xcelsius 2008 click File--Open from platform ,can not find any universe folder in it.
   and not find any related connection about universe in "Data Manager"
what can i do . thx

Hi ,
You can not open any universe files using xcelsius 2008.We can just connect to universe using live office from excel and we can fire a query same as Qwaas. The option you are trying to open can open only xcelsius file that was saved in BOE platform. In dashboard design[Xcelsius latest version] which is launched recently can connect directly to universe to fire query directly without using live office.
If you want to get the data from universe without using Qwaas you can create a query in universe using live office.
In Xcelsius go to Excel and click on live office tab and click on universe query.It will open the universe objects,using those objects you can create a query.
Note: To use live office, you need to install microsoft live office.You can download it from sap service market place.
Regards
Vishnu
Edited by: Vishnuvardhan Reddy Tirumala Reddy on Jul 28, 2011 1:20 PM

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Okay I've tried a couple of things since I posted this original question. Starting with once again uninstalling and reinstalling Xcelsius and Flashpoint. Based on your question I tried all the export options - it crashes everytime. The problem must be in generating the SWF. If I start with the blank page and blank excel it'll let me go to preview. If I open one of your example files it'll work. If I open any of the files I built in 4.5 it crashes. If I just import in one of my excel files and leave the canvas blank it crashes. Kind of suggests it's an excel problem or an interface problem. I do notice it doesn't matter if I'm importing an 2003 .xls file, a 2007 compatible .xls file, or a 2007 .xlsx I get the same incompatibly box before it'll import.
The spreadsheet I'm wokring off from works fine in 4.5 Professional
Edited by: Maureen LaComb on Jul 24, 2008 10:56 PM

Xcelsius 2008 FP2 won't export to swf

Hello,
I can not get Xcelsius to preview or export to swf. The progress bar labelled "Generating swft" displays for approximately 3-5 minutes until Xcelsius.exe finally crashes and the app closes. I'm running Xcelsius 2008 SP1 with FP2, Live Office XI R2 and Flash 10 (lastest version). I've also looked at the Flash security as described in other forum posts and that does not appear to be the issue.
The .xlf I'm working with was successfully completed and published to Crystalreports.com and is working fine. The problems began when two additional Live Office connections were added to allow for some additional data points in the next release of the dashboard. The data model now contains a few hundred more rows and a few hundred forumlas causing the Excel file to increase to just under 1MB. The total number of rows of data return in all Live Office connections combine are just over 1,000 rows. The max # rows setting in Xcelsius is set to 2,000. The formula cells added to the data model are fairly simple formulas that were successfully used in the data model previously (ISERROR, INDEX, MATCH).
On occasion, Xcelsius will give the message box "Your range has been reduced to the maximum rows allowed" before crashing.
Acting on this message I have removed the new Live Office connections, but the message/crashing continues. I have now scaled back the # of Live Office connections and # of formula cells way back to a very small number. the data model is now very small and quickly imports into Xcelsius yet the same message/crashing continues. I have verified that the data model currently in Xcelsius is the most recent, very small version of the data model, but Xcelsius still behaves like the large 1MB data model is present.
I don't know if this is even a # rows/data model size issue or a config/bug issue. Any suggestions would be most appreciated.
I've read the PDF on FP3, but don't see this scenario listed. Might FP3 help? I need to be FP3 is compatible with publishing swf files to Crystalreports.com which is a BOE XI R2 platform.

thanks for the quick advice. so we can scale back the data to within 512 rows by splitting this into 2 dashboards. Not ideal, but shouldl be acceptable.
The data is already pre-aggregated. The data sources for this data model are crystal reports that are published in Crystalreports.com and refreshed nightly against a 3rd party API. Virtually all of the formulas required in Excel are used to line up rows of data that are being pulled in from 2 seperate live office queries. All of the required data points could not be included in a single crystal report so 2 are needed and the rows matched up in Excel using an INDEX(MATCH) formula. We are not using any unsupported functions or VLOOKUP per the advice of an Xcelsius best practice document I located in this forum. I'm open to any suggestions on better techniques to align related rows of data from two seperate ranges in Excel so they essentially appear as though they came from a single data source.
I am starting to lean toward the # of formulas in the data model as being the issue and have added fitlers to the live office query to cut the # of rows to only 20% of what was originally being retrieved. The # of formulas were also reduced by the same percentage. However, when trying to preview or export to swf, Xcelsius still gives the same message that the range was reduced to the max allowed and then crashes. It's as if Xcelsius is still seeing the old data model. Perhaps something is being cached that isn't clearing out? Even a full remove and re-install of Xcelsius SP1, Live Office and FP2 has had no affect. Maybe we need to build a new .xlf from scratch?
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